C. A. Rosetti’s „Jurnalul meu” – Aspects of the intimate writing

Abstract

The diaristic formula advanced by C.A. Rosetti in Jurnalul meu [My Diary] brings forth aspects of a personality aspiring, in Romanticist vein, to develop itself by virtue of the real and literary patterns of patriotism, sacrificial devotion to the homeland, the poet as a citizen and revolutionary man, continually contested by the state of mind of a nascent Wallachian scholar tormented by mal du siècle, by idleness, by too great a passion for women, and by his desire to be acknowledged as a poet.

Keywords

• Literary patterns
• patriotism
• sacrificial calling
• personal writing