ficiune nseamn poate c.poate c o gaur de vierme este i existena uman.mcar pentru c omul o resimte ca parcurs, mai rapid dect ar fi de dorit, dintr-o zon necunoscut n alta la fel de necunoscut.poate c ntr-o gaur de vierme prezentul e singurul timp posibil.ce este prezentul fr contiin nimic.contiina o amprent de identificare pe care sinele o numete eu, iar ceilali el.criminalitii presar peste amprente un praf, o substan destinat scoaterii lor n relief. poezia lucreaz i ea cu asemenea prafuri, limbajul expresiv sau alte trucuri.trebuie s se poat i altfel.personajul volumului gaura de vierme transfer materialul livrat de contiin printr-un loc ngust, o fant. timpul prezent din gaura de vierme: oameni, lucruri i ntmplri la care, din motivele lui, eu nu a renunat, care sunt vii, active.trecerea prin fant presupune comprimare i tensiune i totui proba trecerii trebuie s fie firescul, normalitatea spunerii. exist un punct unde sunetul nu e alterat de efectele distanei n timp sau spaiu.ce spunem firesc poate fi important, poate interesa cel puin.“ – g.g.

Edition first published in 1887. According to Wikipedia: "Edmund Burke (1729-1797) was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher, who served for many years in the British House of Commons as a member of the Whig party. He is mainly remembered for his support of the American colonies in the dispute with King George III and Great Britain that led to the American Revolution and for his strong opposition to the French Revolution... Burke also published philosophical works on aesthetics and founded the Annual Register, a political review. He is often regarded by conservatives as the Father of Anglo-American conservatism."

Essays on Style, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Lamb, Sir Thomas Brown, Love's Labours Lost, Measure for Measure, Shakespeare's English Kings, Dante Rossetti, and Feuillet's La Morte. According to Wikipedia: "Walter Horatio Pater (4 August 1839 - 30 July 1894) was an English essayist and critic of art and literary critic....his study of "Aesthetic Poetry" appeared in the Fortnightly Review, to be succeeded by essays on Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, Pico della Mirandola and Michelangelo. These, with other similar studies, were collected in his Studies in the History of the Renaissance in 1873. Pater, now at the centre of a small but interesting circle in Oxford, gained respect in London and elsewhere, numbering the Pre-Raphaelites among his friends.... by the time his philosophical novel Marius the Epicurean appeared, he had gathered quite a following. This, his chief contribution to literature, was published early in 1885. In it Pater displays, with fullness and elaboration, his ideal of the aesthetic life, his cult of beauty as opposed to bare asceticism, and his theory of the stimulating effect of the pursuit of beauty as an ideal of its own. The principles of what would be known as the Aesthetic movement were partly traceable to Pater and his effect was particularly felt on one of the movement's leading proponents, Oscar Wilde, a former student of Pater at Oxford. In 1887 he published Imaginary Portraits, a series of essays in philosophic fiction; Appreciations, with an Essay on Style was published in 1889 with a revised second edition in 1890; in 1893, Plato and Platonism; and in 1894, The Child in the House. His Greek Studies and his Miscellaneous Studies were collected posthumously in 1895; his romance Gaston de Latour appeared posthumously in 1896; and his essays from The Guardian were privately printed in 1897."

Volumul reprezint? punctul de finalizare a unor preocup?ri anterioare ale autorului, afirmat ?n c?mpul semioticii ?i al stilisticii prin studii ?i eseuri dedicate cu prec?dere poeziei rom?ne?ti de-a lungul evolu?iei ei. F?r? a-i ignora pe creatorii medii, importan?i pentru c? dau expresie continuit??ii, el ?i-a propus s? explice, cu mijloacele puse la dispozitie de progresul ?nregistrat de disciplinele umaniste ?n ultima jum?tate de secol, ?misterul“ care transforma limba ?n opera. Sunt discuta?i marii poe?i na?ionali, de la Mihai Eminescu la Nichita St?nescu, relev?ndu-i-se fiec?ruia specificitatea, a?a cum se deta?eaz? ea pe fundalul unor constante care definesc ?ns??i esen?a poeticit??ii.

Aproxima?ii o carte de critic? literar? ?n care autorul a ?nregistrat cele mai importante apari?ii din literatura rom?n? a ultimilor ani, ?n studii critice, cronici literare ?i eseuri care comenteaz? c?r?i, scriitori sau tendin?e ale momentului actual. Structurat? ?n trei cicluri, cartea lui Iulian Boldea se remarc? prin precizia formul?rilor, obiectivitatea enun?urilor ?i prin metodele critice adecvate valorificate. Tototdata, ea con?ine numeroase puncte de vedere, perspective ?i ipoteze critice meritorii, dup? cum v?de?te o extrem? aten?ie la nuan?ele textului, la relieful s?u subliminal. Demersul critic al autorului se caracterizeaz?, ?nainte de toate, prin rigoarea aser?iunilor ?i relevan?a demonstra?iei. ?ntre autorii comenta?i ?n aceast? carte, pot fi aminti?i Virgil Nemoianu, Al. Paleologu, Nicolae Manolescu, Gabriel Liiceanu, Adrian Marino, Ion Vartic, Marta Petreu, Mircea Muthu, Dan Culcer, ?tefan Borbély, Horia B?descu, Vasile Dan, Eugen Dorcescu, Ion Zuba?cu s.a.

Pornind de la Ioana Em. Petrescu, studiul propus urm?re?te s? probeze cu arsenalul criticii de descenden?? fenomenologic?, mereu actualizat?, o teorie referitoare la asumarea eminescianismului de c?tre cei mai importan?i poe?i ai secolului trecut. Actualitatea lui Eminescu se dovede?te astfel ?i prin ve?nica recitire ?i asumare a poeziei sale de c?tre poe?i precum Bacovia, Blaga, Barbu, Arghezi, Labi?, Nichita St?nescu. Aceast? prezen?? eminescian?, asumat? teoretic (vezi Blaga) sau topit? ?n profunzimile textelor poetice (vezi Labi? sau Nichita St?nescu), sus?ine valabilitatea canonului eminescian. Eminescu este astfel inactual doar dac? privim o parte ?nsemnat? a poeziei actuale, prea ancorat? ?ntr-o realitate golit? de semnifica?ie, o poezie s?r?cit? de profunzimea transfigurat? a Creatorului. (In)actualitatea lui Eminescu probeaz? astfel doar tragic? noastr? inactualitate./ – Florin Oprescu

Gabriela Crean scrie poezie cu gnoz dedesubt. Faptul a fost remarcat nc de la prima sa carte, iar modul acesta de a construi a rmas nu constant, ci neschimbat, chiar dac unele accente s-au mai mutat. Gnoza, tradus apocrif, nu e ns dect schela unei viziuni de intensitate paroxistic. Important cu adevrat e suflul imaginativ, dezlnuirea spasmatic a imaginaiei i ritmul frenetic n care sublimele se topesc n grotesc sau imnoidele se revrs n apostrofe. Gabriela Crean vede lumea oximoronic, n coincidene stupefiante i radicale, n care gramatica sacrelor nu se mai poate distinge de cea a infernalelor. Modului ei de a traduce juisarea vizionar n sarcasme i febra celest n repulsii violente i s-ar potrivi conceptul de profanare al lui Giorgio Agamben. Asta dac poezia n-ar face altceva dect filosofia; dar cum face, Gabriela Crean scrie cu o exasperare exuberant i cu o arden vitriolat despre cel mai inconfortabil mod de a fi n lume: sub un imperativ atroce.“ – Al. Cistelecan

Iat?, ?n cuvintele Aurei Christi, curg?nd abundent, din surse ascunse, fluidul vivifiant al poeziei, s? nu ne temem de retorica majusculelor, al marii Poezii. (Nicolae Balot?) Aura Christi a uimit critica de specialitate prin ample volute metaforice, calde, ?ndr?zne?e, abord?nd, ?n c?teva volume, printr-o splendid? frond?, clasicul sonet poetic ?i dovedind o excelent? st?p?nire a limbii, a mijloacelor specifice, ?ntr-o liric? a medita?iei grave, ad?nci, exprimat? ?n metafore, ?n care modernitatea ?i sensibilitatea secolului se confund?, cu vigoare clar?, de o marcat? originalitate, tumultuos ?i muzical aproape, ?ntr-o subtil? rezonan?? eufonic?, cu trimiteri, accente ?i imagini simbolice, cu marele torent al liricii europene de ?nalt nivel, de la Rimbaud ?i Baudelaire, la Rilke ?i Blaga. ?i, ?nc? odat?, la ?vetaieva ?i Nichita St?nescu. (Nicolae Breban) M? auzi tu, oare, ?nstr?inato? Am citit poeziile tale la ceas de sear?, pe o teras?, av?nd ?n fa?? colinele Ierusalimului. Eu nu sunt un bun comentator de poezie, cei care au scris despre poezia ta te-au ?prins“ foarte bine, ai for??, un sim? rar al tragicului ?i antene pentru transcenden??… (Leon Volovici) Ignor?nd retorica unei poezii postmoderniste intolerante, metonimice – baliz?ndu-se ?n criteriul retoricului, un trop ajunge, iat?, s? impun? un model poetic – Aura Christi continu? s? ofere un osp?? metaforic. Psalmul coexist? cu viziunea aspr?, expresionist?. Universul ?i limbajul au torsiuni tragice, ?n nara?iuni poematice deopotriv? fruste ?i fabuloase, cvasimitice. Moartea e o prezen?? familiar?, ca privirea ?i olfac?ia ?ns??i. Mitul e prezent ca joc automodelator. Calea spre mit ajunge o traversare a suferin?ei. (Marian Victor Buciu) A scrie c?derea apocaliptic? nu e u?or. E un merit al Aurei Christi faptul de a g?si singura solu?ie la aceast? c?dere fatal?, dat? din pornire: cel care o scrie o ?i ?opre?te“, ?incit?nd rigoarea/ celui din urm? frig“. Doar un fel de zeu al poeziei, o divinitate descoperit? cu greu, con?tient? de destr?marea mitului, poate s? impun? din nou mitul: instituirea ?mai viului“ este cu putin?? doar datorit? mor?ii. ?nvierea nu e posibil? dec?t datorit? ei. Sensul celei mai mari dintre taine se dezleag?, astfel, paradoxal, prin r?sturnarea negativit??ii generale a sensului. (...) Descoperirea f?cut? de poet? este c? realul ?nsu?i are origine poetic? (nu real?!), prin c?derea ?n ?emisfera cealalt?“, de parc? Dante ?nsu?i ar fi acum reeditat ?n alt? semantic?: ?Ah, calul e fiu al pega?ilor dintotdeauna“. Fiin?ele existente ??i au ob?r?ia ?n himere, iar realitatea ia fiin?? din metafor?. (...) Alt? ?descoperire“ poetic?: ?ntreg mitul temporal al omenirii poate fi ranversat. (…) Iat?, deci, cum se poate recupera mitul ?ntr-o epoc? ?n care toat? lumea postmodern? a visat la demitizare ?i dez-iluzionare pentru a se apropia de realul ca atare. (?tefania Mincu)

Long essay that begins: "There is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any art. All our arts and occupations lie wholly on the surface; it is on the surface that we perceive their beauty, fitness, and significance; and to pry below is to be appalled by their emptiness and shocked by the coarseness of the strings and pulleys. In a similar way, psychology itself, when pushed to any nicety, discovers an abhorrent baldness, but rather from the fault of our analysis than from any poverty native to the mind."

Short essay, first published in 1906. According to Wikipedia: "Washington is seen as a symbol of the United States and republicanism in practice. His devotion to civic virtue made him an exemplary figure among early American politicians. Washington died in 1799, and in his funeral oration, Henry Lee said that of all Americans, he was "first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen." Washington has been consistently ranked by scholars as one of the greatest U.S. Presidents."

Two personal diaries of southern women during the Civil War, first published long after the war. Beers' first-hand account of the Civil War from the perspective of a Confederate woman. According to the Preface: For several years my friends among Confederate soldiers have been urging me to "write up" and publish what I know of the war. By personal solicitation and by letter this subject has been brought before me and placed in the light of a duty which I owe to posterity. Taking this view of it, I willingly comply, glad that I am permitted to stand among the many "witnesses" who shall establish "the truth," proud to write myself as one who faithfully served the defenders of the Cause which had and has my heart's devotion." Plus Dawson's war-time diary of a young girl, first published in 1913.

Short collection of short essays, including "What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us" and "A Little Note to M. Paul Bourget". According to Wikipedia: "Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910), better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was a humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer from the United States of America. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He is also known for his quotations. During his lifetime, Twain became a friend to presidents, artists, leading industrialists and European royalty. Twain enjoyed immense public popularity, and his keen wit and incisive satire earned him praise from both critics and peers. American author William Faulkner called Twain 'the father of American literature.'"

This collection includes Revolution, The Somnambulists, The Dignity of Dollars, Goliah, The Golden Poppy, The Shrinkage of the Planet, The House Beautiful, The Gold Hunters of the North, Foma Gordyeeff, These Bones shall Rise Again, The Other Animals, The Yellow Peril, and What Life Means to Me. According to Wikipedia: "Jack London (1876 – 1916) was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea Wolf along with many other popular books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing."

Volume 12 of the Chronicles of America Series. According to Wikipedia: "Washington is seen as a symbol of the United States and republicanism in practice. His devotion to civic virtue made him an exemplary figure among early American politicians. Washington died in 1799, and in his funeral oration, Henry Lee said that of all Americans, he was "first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen." Washington has been consistently ranked by scholars as one of the greatest U.S. Presidents."

First published in 1907. A memoir of the books in Doyle's library. According to Wikipedia: "Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish physician and writer who is most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. He is also known for writing the fictional adventures of a second character he invented, Professor Challenger, and for popularising the mystery of the Mary Celeste. He was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels."

Popular collection of essays, first published in 1919. According to Wikipedia: "Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer, poet, and prominent aesthete who, after writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the tragedy of his imprisonment, followed by his early death."

Conrad's summaries, prefaces, and ruminations about his books. According to Wikipedia: "Joseph Conrad (1857 – 1924) was a Polish-born English novelist. Many critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in the English language—a fact that is remarkable, as he did not learn to speak English fluently until he was in his twenties (and always with a strong Polish accent). He became a naturalized British subject in 1886. Conrad is recognized as a master prose stylist. Some of his works have a strain of romanticism, but more importantly he is recognized as an important forerunner of modernist literature. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many writers, including Ernest Hemingway, D. H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Graham Greene, William S. Burroughs, Joseph Heller, V.S. Naipaul, Italo Calvino and J. M. Coetzee."

From the essay "Of Study": "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention." According to Wikipedia: "Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban KC QC (22 January 1561 — 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. He is also known as a catalyst of the scientific revolution. His most celebrated works include The New Atlantis. Bacon was knighted in 1603, created Baron Verulam in 1618, and Viscount St Alban in 1621..."

Conrad's autobiography. According to Wikipedia: "Joseph Conrad (1857 – 1924) was a Polish-born English novelist. Many critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in the English language—a fact that is remarkable, as he did not learn to speak English fluently until he was in his twenties (and always with a strong Polish accent). He became a naturalized British subject in 1886. Conrad is recognized as a master prose stylist. Some of his works have a strain of romanticism, but more importantly he is recognized as an important forerunner of modernist literature. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced many writers, including Ernest Hemingway, D. H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Graham Greene, William S. Burroughs, Joseph Heller, V.S. Naipaul, Italo Calvino and J. M. Coetzee."

Classic collection of essays. According to Wikipedia: "Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936) was an influential English writer of the early 20th century. His prolific and diverse output included journalism, philosophy, poetry, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy and detective fiction. Chesterton has been called the "prince of paradox." He wrote in an off-hand, whimsical prose studded with startling formulations. For example: "Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it."[2] He is one of the few Christian thinkers who are equally admired and quoted by both liberal and conservative Christians, and indeed by many non-Christians. Chesterton's own theological and political views were far too nuanced to fit comfortably under the "liberal" or "conservative" banner."

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