Le livre de Martin Page est très interessant et attrayant. Le titre » Comment je suis devenu stupide » exprime l’ironie de l’auteur devant une société dans laquelle les valeurs ne sont pas reconnues. Le personnage principal du roman, Antoine, a 25 ans, il est très intelligent, mais il ne se sent pas confortable dans ce monde. Read the rest…
Who would have thought in the spring of 2007 that in a few months we would meet the person whose book made the subject of our essay? Not even in the moment we met Antonio Spadaro could we believe it. We listened to him lustily and enthusiastically accepted his proposal of making BombaCarta - Mures.
The soul of our BombaCarta was born in Rome. Read the rest…
Elio Andriuoli chose poetry as a way to express his desire for travelling towards the light, to wander the unseen faces of our existence, to discover the beyond or to find out the mysteries of life. He fulfilled this itinerary, travelling through his previous volumes, chronologically, starting with Equinozio (1979), then Reperti (1984), going on with Stagioni (1986), stopping at Maree (1990) and finishing with Itinerari (Inedite), all of these included in Stefan Damian`s translated volume, which was published by Europa Publishing House in 1996 as a proof of his succesful journey. Read the rest…
Ion V. Strătescu’s novel, Alegere forţată, (Casa Editorială Odeon, Bucureşti, 2007) (Forced choice) is a book about Romania a few years before 1989 and the beginning of the ’90s, seen through the eyes of Mihai Columban, an engineer in charge for a while of a big factory in Galaţi. Forced to leave Galaţi and move to Bucharest he realizes that if he wants to survive he must leave the country. He thus applies for a job in Munchen. He will be far from the revolution and not being involved makes him objective, giving a lot of interesting information about how it was seen from the outside.
A book about the reality of the 90s, a book about life, love, hate and friendship, which is worth reading for fun or for information no matter where or when: on the way to work or at home before going to bed.
Melinda CRĂCIUN
The book of Antonio Spadaro is very interesting, because it is an occasion to reflect to the purpose of literature. Literature means all of our experiences and feelings. A literary book is a reflection of reality, of life. A book is an universe which lives in language. The reader is discovering this universe, where he finds himself. Antonio Spadaro said the reader is the first critic of the literary text. The reader’s reaction is very important, the literary creation belong to the public finally, because the literature contains the truth of life. The reader and the book have a real communion, based on the experiences of life.
The lecture is formative, because the reader can learn, form his own character, he is able to find examples in the literary creation. The reader is like a traveler, who tries to find the sense of the text, of the words. The sense of a literary text is inexhaustible. It is the example of the Bible. The Bible has a lot of interpretations, because humans are divine creations and we live in the divine Word. It is important to live according with the spiritual life. The message of the text offers that occasion. The literature discovers the secrets of the life and a book realizes its purpose when the message arrives to the reader’s soul. The criticism fixed rules, established the hierarchy of values, but the reader established his own criterion of judgment.
In a world where the young generation is interested in the Internet, the literature has to educate people for knowing the good and bad books and to form an opinion. The literature uses to discover ourselves and to form our personality.
Denisa CIACLAN
Antonio Spadaro starts by defining literature as an “interpretation of life” (La ce ,,foloseşte” literatura? – What Is the Use of Literature?, Galaxia Gutemberg, Târgu-Lăpuş, 2006, p. 46). A re-presentative interpretation, we would add, as literature does nothing but remold the substance of the world, place it in new combinations, experiment according to formulae dictated by every writer’s own sensibility.
Literature doesn’t have to be useful. It only has to be literature and let its reader react as he whishes after reading: learning something about the world or himself, strengthening his power of comprehension of the world or a text, practicing a much sharper spirit or simply relaxing. Literature has more than just one voice. It’s up to every reader which one he knows or which one he can hear. All he has to do is listen…
Veronica BUTA