CARMEN SYLVA – O CUMPĂNĂ ÎNTRE CULTURA OCCIDENTALĂ ȘI CEA ROMÂNEASCĂ

Abstract

The present study validates, in a directory manner, the perspective according to which the creativity of Queen Elisabeth un-conservatory spirit, grafted on the conservative liberal branch of Charles I may be found again in the fifty tomes corpus written by Carmen Sylva (some with their own illustrations), that reveal, both to the Romanian as well as to the Western lecturer a lacunar verified theme disseminated in a shy manner. The rural cult, the ethnicity, the folk creator genius received as „the most straightforward manifestation of the folks’ true nature” constitutes the arch of the vault for redefining the conservative canon. Close to the reverential terms of D. Caracostea (1943), the concentration of the cultural vocation in the phrase “dynasty’s creativity” in which “the blood does not betray the motherland,” and the soul does not let itself contaminated by the “overly civilized cosmopolitan centers”, which, on their turn, ask for being “refreshed” by the energy that emanates from the cultures and literatures by the edge of Europe-we shall accept as edifying, in this direction, the very care of Queen Elizabeth herself, for the values of Romanian culture, some already enshrined (V. Alecsandri), others in the process of forming (N. Grigorescu, G. Enescu).

Keywords

• carmen sylva – creator and promoter of the romanian culture within the west; dynastic creator spirit; the neo-conservativism of the queen-writer.