B.Literature, Tome X, No.2, 2004

THE PERMANENCE OF SYNTHESIS: FORM THE GREEN NOVEL TO THE BYZANTINE NOVEL
Mirela Roznoveanu
New York University, U.S.A.

So far, hagiographic novels have been mainly dealt with from a strictly religious, rhetorical or historical perspective, neglecting their aesthetic dimension. Moreover, they have not been considered individually, but only in terms of the genre features they illustrate. This has been due to their heavy religious content, which in the hands of copyists, editors, and compilers became a hybrid kind of prose that, throughout the centuries, turned into a mere object of Christian worship. Hagiographic novels were usually written by prominent religious people such as, for instance, St. Augustine whose first-person narrative Confessions provides a unique key to grasping the genesis of the Western Medieval novel, as well as to later prose works produced in the various national East European cultures by writers such as Demetrius Cantemir, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Dmitri Merezhkovsky, Mihail Sadoveanu, Ivo Andric, Nikos Kazantzakis, Jordan Radishcev, Paul Goma, a.o. The epic structure of the hagiographic novels originated and was perfected in Byzantium. This allowed their hero or heroine to realize, following a period of sinfulness or lassitude, their dire state and thenceforward to turn their lives around by setting out on an ascensional path toward the divine light, and thereby earn redemption and the aura of sainthood.

Traduction: l'approche herméneutique
Ioana Balacescu
University of Craiova / Université de Bielefeld, Allemagne

During the last fifty years translation studies have been dominated by analytical approaches, victims of the «myth of objectivism» and an illusory belief in machine translation. The hermeneutic tradition lived an underground life. The relative failure of machine translation has raised questions about the validity of analytical approaches. But what furthered a new interest in a hermeneutic approach to translations studies were mostly the results of cognitivist research which furnished a scientific legitimation to the descriptions of translational activities from the heuristic perspective, the more so as these descriptions are confirmed by the testimony of practitioners in translation. Thus cognitivistic research provides the basis for the new evaluation criterion of "intersubjektive Nachvollziehbarkeit" (intersubjective understanding) exacted by the epistemological revolution as demanded by Stefanink (1997).

Das Feuilleton. Charakteristika eines literarisch-kritischen Genres
Ioana ROSTOS
Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava

The purpose of this paper, which is part of a much larger project, is to sort out the three meanings of what the German press has been calling, for the past two hundred years, "das Feuilleton", namely: the newspaper articles related to culture, seen as a whole ("Feuilleton als Sparte"); the style of such articles (also known as "Feuilletonismus"); and finally the most representative kind of such articles ("Feuilleton als Textsorte"). There follow a brief history of the Feuilleton, a sociological analysis of its readers, as well as a presentation of one of the first species that the Feuilleton has adopted: the novel. After dwelling, in the first part of this paper, on the nature of the Feuilleton, we go on to demonstrate that it actually represents the link between literature and the press. We survey its 77 species, subjecting three of them to closer examination: the letter, the essay and the reportage. We take into account its language and stylistic peculiarities, in order to support the theory of the triangle literature - Feuilleton - remaining newspaper contents.

La traduction: art ou objet d'études scientifiques?
Bernd Stefanink
Université de Bielefeld, Allemagne

Nach den Misserfolgen der maschinellen Übersetzung, so wie sie in den ersten Jahren nach dem zweiten Weltkrieg konzipiert war, kam manch enttäuschter Übersetzungswissenschaftler zum Schluss, dass "die Linguistik dem Übersetzungswissenschaftler nichts bringt" (Lederer 1994). Im Gegensatz dazu wird in folgendem Artikel aufgezeigt, dass dies an überkommenen Auffassungen von Linguistik beruht. Es wird gezeigt, wie sich Übersetzungswissenschaft und Linguistik im gegenseitigen Wechselspiel beeinflusst und weiterentwickelt haben. IN ihrem letzten Entwicklungsstadium hat sich die Linguistik, als Kognitionslinguistik, endgültig von der Illusion einer objektiven Textrezeption gelöst und zu einer Integration des Faktors Mensch in die Theoriebildung zum Verstehensprozess geführt. Der Übersetzungswissenschaft hat die Kognitionslinguistik wissenschaftliche Erklärungsmodelle für die kreativen Problemlösungsverfahren geliefert, zu denen der Übersetzer, zwecks Überwindung kultureller Barrieren, immer wieder in seiner Praxis gezwungen wird.

THE WORLD OF CARAGIALE'S PARODY
Daniela Petrosel
Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava

This article analyses the parodic dimension of Caragiale's writings. Most of his parodies have satiric purposes, the Romanian author making his contemporaries' texts the object of laughter. Thus, Delavrancea, Macedonski, Vlahuta are some of his favourite target-authors. Caragiale's parodic intention is also oriented to the newspapers' style, stressing its artificial and ridiculous constructions. Even in his serious works we can detect parodic traces, parody being used for its metafictional values.

Une dramatisation yourcenarienne: La Petite Sirène
Olga GANCEVICI
Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava

This article has as a starting point the play The Little Mermaid, a free transcription of the writer Marguerite Yourcenar, based on Andersen's homonymous story. The analysis is based on the phenomenon of intertextuality that is implied by the reading of Yourcenar's writing. It also deals with certain immediate consequences detected within the passing from one epical genre to another (a dramatic one.) We envisage, briefly, a third reflection path, the symbolical one. It is true that, traditionally, in terms of form, Yourcenar's theatre offers the prospect of a plural reading which our analysis cannot ignore.

Le rôle de la passion dans l'univers racinien
Nicoleta Loredana MOROSAN
Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava

In the latter part of the XVIIth century, passion is, besides glory, ambition or revenge, one of the largely resorted to topics. If Pierre Corneille ranked it low, Jean Racine considered it to play a pivotal part in the human being's life. In the present article, we shall try to unveil the way in which the Racinian tragedy reflects the importance of this theme, abiding by the constraints imposed by the trend of classicism.

A FEW NOTES ON AN UNPUBLISHED TEXT: MESTERUL MANOLE BY LAURENTIU FULGA
Claudia COSTIN
Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava

Uno de los mitos de los geto-dacios, sobre el cual hay sucintas informaciones en cuanto las fuentes cultas de los escritores antiguos, es el de Zamolxe, que sigue despertando el interés a los exegetas. El culto iniciado por Zalmolxe está en la cercanía de los misterios de Eluesis y de los órficos. El sacerdote, celebrado por los geto-dacios como un dios, había sembrado en sus almas la fe, puramente espiritual de su existencia, posterior a la fésica, terrenal: la fe en la inmortalidad.

MATEI VISNIEC – PROSE WRITER
Bogdan CRETU
Al. I. Cuza University of Iasi

Matei Visniec, one of the most important poets of the 80's, wrote The Pas-Parol Cafè when all the other generation mates stubbornly wrote only short stories. The novel is mostly an allegory, concerning the fate of the intellectual during a cruel history. The characters ressemble those in his theatre and the athmosfere is similar to that of his poems - Visniec is a constant writer. Without being a masterpiece, the novel succeds, however, in creating the main coordinates that the future work of the author is to use. Kafka, Buzzati and the authors of the absurd seem to be the models. All in all, Matei Visniec's novel is an experiment, probably not one of his best works, but, anyway, a god example of his unique method of writing, a consolidation of his style.

MIRCEA ELIADE, REFLECTIONS OVER ROMANIAN IDENTITY
Sabina FÎNARU
Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava

L'œuvre présente la vision de Mircea Eliade au sujet de l'identité culturelle roumaine selon la perspective de ses articles de jeunesse. Dans sa vision, l'existence historique se rapporte autant à une dimension historique qu'à une dimension spirituelle, et entraîne un rapport dynamique et cohérent entre les plans historique et anhistorique, culte et populaire, moderne et archaïque, individuel et collectif, national et universel. L'identité nationale est définie par la relativisation, la transformation et la contextualisation des valeurs. L'identité nationale, historique et culturelle se manifeste en tant que système dynamique, polycentrique, telle une mosaïque qui se renouvelle constamment; les caractéristiques principales en sont la mobilité et la diversité. La Roumanie est un espace culturel marginal par rapport à l'espace européen, mais central, dynamique et ouvert, à rôle d'intermédiaire dans le processus de synthèse des traditions culturelles non-européennes.