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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 3 / 2017  
         
  Article:   SONGS TO THE DEAD AND THE DARK SPLENDOR OF LIFE THAT RESISTS / LES ‘CHANTS DU MORT’ ET LA SPLENDEUR NOIRCIE DE LA VIE QUI RÉSISTE.

Authors:  GIOVANNI ROTIROTI.
 
       
         
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DOI: 10.24193/subbphilo.2017.3.10

Published Online: 2017-09-30
Published Print: 2017-09-30

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Songs to the Dead and the Dark Splendor of Life That Resists. This study aims to demonstrate how some Songs ‘To the dead’ from Gorj district (collected by Constantin Brăiloiu and translated in French by Ilarie Voronca, with the title Chants du mort) have considerably influenced the European poetry in the twentieth century. These funeral songs, coming from an ancient oral tradition and very popular during the Romanian Middle Age, are the archaic proof of Romanian popular poetry, since they deal with Pre-Christian imaginary. In these songs the dead aims to be ready for a long trip, where he meets some supernatural entities, who drive him to the afterlife. In this article, a relevant part is dedicated to Paul Celan and Ilarie Voronca, and a specific attention is paid to the revolutionary trait of the sense of loss, to grief elaboration and to exile, in a world which has been destroyed by the Holocaust.

Key words: Songs, ‘To the dead’ from Gorj, Constantin Brăiloiu, Ilarie Voronca, Paul Celan, Romanian popular poetry, Holocaust, Comparative Literature, Traductology.
 
         
     
         
         
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