Poetry
Numele tău
Not translated into English
Grigore Vieru · 1968
Synopsis
Verses of great simplicity and a moving sentimentality, in which runs a nostalgia for a Romanian way of life that Soviet power destroyed in Bessarabia. Three pieces take as their titles the names of Tudor Arghezi, Lucian Blaga and Brâncuși, and two others are dedicated to Nicolae Labiș and Marin Sorescu: for the first time since the war, the poetry of Bessarabia thus saluted creators from the other bank of the Prut.
Context
The volume appeared in Chișinău in 1968, with a preface by Ion Druță, like the previous book. Daniel Corbu sees in it a turning point in Bessarabian lyric poetry and the most original of the postwar poetic publications; the journal Limba Română dates from this book the resonance its author found in the public mind. Ten years later, in 1978, the Junimea publishing house of Iași published his first book to appear in Romania.
Who it is for
In Romanian, short and unadorned verses; knowing what the names of Romanian artists weighed in Chișinău at the time sheds light on the tributes.
Prizes and reception
Included, from the very year of its publication, in the syllabus of university courses on contemporary literature.
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