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Sonete
„Conţinutul sonetelor lui Marin Sorescu interesează prin autenticitatea unor trăiri mereu actuale: unele motive vin din Antichitate, traversează câteva epoci şi poposesc în contemporaneitate. Eros, reflecţie gravă, nelinişte, satiră, demnitatea trăirii, mituri şi motive biblice şi istorice – toate purtând pecetea unui eu novator. Orizontul ideatic se regăseşte în actul creaţiei – poetul cultivă metrici diferite, există aici o artă a concentrării esenţelor, dar şi un univers de imagini inedite. Imaginarul tutelează fiecare impuls poetic.“ George Sorescu - See more at: http://www.editura-art.ro/carte/sonet...
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288 pages, Hardcover
First published February 1, 2016
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About the author
Marin Sorescu
146 books169 followersIn 1964 the Romanian Communist government relaxed its censorship policies, signaling a new openness to free expression. The nation's poets heeded that signal, and Romanian poetry experienced a striking revival. Poet and playwright Marin Sorescu is perhaps one of the most popular figures to emerge from Romanian literary culture in the years since.
Sorescu writes in a plainspoken, down-to-earth style spiced with sly humor. He responds to the hardships of Romanian life not with grand rhetoric or fire-and-brimstone sermons, but with what translator Michael Hamburger describes as "ironic verse fables," as quoted by Dennis Deletant in the Times Literary Supplement. Virgil Nemoianu, also writing in the Times Literary Supplement, comments that "[Sorescu's] reactions to an increasingly absurd political regime were always cleverly balanced: he never engaged in the servile praise of leader and party usually required of Romanian poets, but nor did he venture into dissidence. He was content to let irony do its job."
His choice of irony over confrontation has made it possible for Sorescu to publish freely and frequently. The journal he edited for years, Revista Ramuri, managed like his poetry to stay within the bounds expected by the Romanian regime. Sorescu's plays, however, have not always fared as well. Both Iona and Exista nervi played to packed houses in Bucharest, the former in 1969 and the latter in 1982. But both plays were quickly withdrawn, their content deemed too controversial. Nonetheless, notes Deletant, the success of these pieces during their brief runs solidified "Sorescu's status as one of the leading writers of his generation."
Sorescu's plays and poetry have earned him, Deletant further states, "an unequaled audience" at home in Romania. And translations of his work into English have helped him build a secure international reputation. The qualities that have allowed his writings to flourish on Romania's state-controlled literary scene may contribute to his popularity abroad as well. There is a universality to Sorescu's conversational tone and ironic perspective, what Nemoianu calls "his rueful jocularity and the good-natured cynicism." George Szirtes, writing in Times Literary Supplement, finds in Sorescu's voice "the wry wisdom that sees through everything and yet continues to hope and despair."
source: Poetry Foundation
Sorescu writes in a plainspoken, down-to-earth style spiced with sly humor. He responds to the hardships of Romanian life not with grand rhetoric or fire-and-brimstone sermons, but with what translator Michael Hamburger describes as "ironic verse fables," as quoted by Dennis Deletant in the Times Literary Supplement. Virgil Nemoianu, also writing in the Times Literary Supplement, comments that "[Sorescu's] reactions to an increasingly absurd political regime were always cleverly balanced: he never engaged in the servile praise of leader and party usually required of Romanian poets, but nor did he venture into dissidence. He was content to let irony do its job."
His choice of irony over confrontation has made it possible for Sorescu to publish freely and frequently. The journal he edited for years, Revista Ramuri, managed like his poetry to stay within the bounds expected by the Romanian regime. Sorescu's plays, however, have not always fared as well. Both Iona and Exista nervi played to packed houses in Bucharest, the former in 1969 and the latter in 1982. But both plays were quickly withdrawn, their content deemed too controversial. Nonetheless, notes Deletant, the success of these pieces during their brief runs solidified "Sorescu's status as one of the leading writers of his generation."
Sorescu's plays and poetry have earned him, Deletant further states, "an unequaled audience" at home in Romania. And translations of his work into English have helped him build a secure international reputation. The qualities that have allowed his writings to flourish on Romania's state-controlled literary scene may contribute to his popularity abroad as well. There is a universality to Sorescu's conversational tone and ironic perspective, what Nemoianu calls "his rueful jocularity and the good-natured cynicism." George Szirtes, writing in Times Literary Supplement, finds in Sorescu's voice "the wry wisdom that sees through everything and yet continues to hope and despair."
source: Poetry Foundation
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June 28, 2020favoritele mele: caini... , marea stravezime, punct explodat, ce-ar fi?
January 3, 2022
2,5*
Am avut așteptări destul de mari de la autorul romanului Trei dinți din față (4,5*) și al piesei de teatru Iona (5*), pe care le recomand oricui. Sonetele din acest volum, însă, mi s-au părut prea sărace în substanță, cu excepția câtorva, cărora le-aș acorda individual câte patru-cinci stele (de exemplu: Începi cu zei, cu ceru-adânc, Descoperiri prea mari, Efecte secundare, Principiul fierii, Sunt eu mereu).
Sigur că, fiind vorba de poezie, e posibil să nu fi prins frecvența corectă cu privire la celelalte sonete (majoritatea) care, la această (primă) lectură, au tras în jos nota dată acestui volum.
Am avut așteptări destul de mari de la autorul romanului Trei dinți din față (4,5*) și al piesei de teatru Iona (5*), pe care le recomand oricui. Sonetele din acest volum, însă, mi s-au părut prea sărace în substanță, cu excepția câtorva, cărora le-aș acorda individual câte patru-cinci stele (de exemplu: Începi cu zei, cu ceru-adânc, Descoperiri prea mari, Efecte secundare, Principiul fierii, Sunt eu mereu).
Sigur că, fiind vorba de poezie, e posibil să nu fi prins frecvența corectă cu privire la celelalte sonete (majoritatea) care, la această (primă) lectură, au tras în jos nota dată acestui volum.
February 28, 2018
I didn't really know what to expect, so I was not disappointed, but I could not say that I liked it very much. It was alright.
July 16, 2024
Nu pot să-i dau mai puțin de 3 stele pentru modul puternic prin care a început, cu poezii precum “Sonet Sonetului”, “Zidirea în dragoste”, “Marea Străvezime”, “Punct Explodat”, “Mişcare” sau “Iradiat de alb”. Apoi, ceva s-a pierdut pe parcurs, poezia cu rădăcini de splendoare a rămas o repetiție a unui continuu spleen comunist.
ZIDIREA ÎN DRAGOSTE
Vino,-nsetaţi de curgerea eternă,
Să ne-adăpăm din jgheab de stalagmită
Şi peştera, sorbind, să ne înghită
Pecetluind intrarea în cavernă.
Un rege-ndrăgostit de-o Sulamită,
Din muntele de marmură, o pernă
Cioplind, pentru o dragoste eternă,
Când lumea toata-i numai dinamită.
Afară este viscol şi e ură -
Îmbrăţişati cresc ţurţurii în plete
Timpul s-a-ntors cu faţa la perete
Şi pân' la viitoarea picătură -
Un secol e şi tu îmi dai o gură
Ce ţine şi de moarte şi de sete.
ZIDIREA ÎN DRAGOSTE
Vino,-nsetaţi de curgerea eternă,
Să ne-adăpăm din jgheab de stalagmită
Şi peştera, sorbind, să ne înghită
Pecetluind intrarea în cavernă.
Un rege-ndrăgostit de-o Sulamită,
Din muntele de marmură, o pernă
Cioplind, pentru o dragoste eternă,
Când lumea toata-i numai dinamită.
Afară este viscol şi e ură -
Îmbrăţişati cresc ţurţurii în plete
Timpul s-a-ntors cu faţa la perete
Şi pân' la viitoarea picătură -
Un secol e şi tu îmi dai o gură
Ce ţine şi de moarte şi de sete.
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