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Povestea Vorbii
Pentru cititorul de astazi, este evident ca importanta literaturii lui Anton Pann nu trebuie cautata doar in resursele ei folclorice, exceptionale si diverse, ci si in acest caracter contemporan si reprezentativ pentru urbea in plina expansiune, in care oamenii noi si, fireste, fara mari rafinamente intra energic intr-o alta stare si traiesc – prima data in aceste „legende urbane“ in felul lor – intamplari obisnuite pentru targovetii epocii: imbraca in haine europenesti, sotiile lor vor sa fie la moda umbla in trasura au afaceri care prospera sau falimenteaza si fireste au probleme cu justittia. Iesind din sfera intlepciunilor eterne, dar si din aceea a vodevilului comic, ei evolueaza intr-o lume reala si dinamica
320 pages, Unknown Binding
First published January 1, 1847
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Anton Pann
20 books9 followersAnton Pann (born Antonie Pantoleon-Petroveanu and also mentioned as Anton Pantoleon or Petrovici) was an Ottoman-born Wallachian composer, musicologist, and Romanian-language poet, also noted for his activities as a printer, translator, and schoolteacher. Pann was an influential folklorist and collector of proverbs, as well as a lexicographer and textbook author.
Pann's literary creation was noted for its reliance on a vast oral tradition, which he claimed to have codified, thus drawing comparisons to his predecessors Rabelais, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Miguel de Cervantes. The Romanian literary critic George Călinescu drew a direct comparison between Pann and his contemporary, the Wallachian Jewish peddler Cilibi Moise, who, without producing any written works, was made famous by a series of bitter puns in which he referred to himself in the third person (such as "For a few years now, Cilibi Moise has been begging Poverty to leave his house, at the very least for as long as it takes him to get dressed").
Together with Ion Creangă and Petre Ispirescu, Pann was among the first major interpreters of Romanian folklore in 19th-century literature. Appealing primarily to a semi-educated audience, his creations have been celebrated for their familiar tone and use of plain Romanian, during a period when literary language was beginning to rely on formalism and a large number of neologisms. The writer himself made frequent excuses to the more educated of his readers for any flaws they were to find in his texts, specifying that he lacked in formal training. In the final decades of his life, several of his printed works, especially Memorialul focului mare and the manele lyrics collection Spitalul amorului, came to be appreciated by a younger generation of boyars. The Moldavian poet Vasile Alecsandri noted, in an 1872 letter quoted by Garabet Ibrăileanu: "Anton Pann has not yet been appreciated to his full value, and moreover, in Wallachia his merits are even being held in contempt by most modern men of letters".
Pann's poetic language often relies on elaborate successions of images, metaphors, or maxims. According to Călinescu, "the fundamental method" used by Pann is "the almost monstrous accumulation of aphorism, around an initial idea and through a very wide [process of] association", amounting to "a burlesque effect".
Almost all of Pann's work drew on recent or ancient sources, which he reinterpreted to suit the tastes of his public. In the 1880s, the scholar Moses Gaster revealed that one of Pann's major works, Înţeleptul Archir şi nepotul său Anadam ("The Wise Archir and His Nephew Anadam"), made ingenious use of an old and much-circulated biography of Aesop. In researching various fables which Pann had used to expand on his proverbs, Gaster noted that they echoed obscure medieval material (including the Gesta Romanorum, Giulio Cesare Croce's Le sottilissime astutie di Bertoldo, and even Siberian Turkic folklore). One of his main pieces, the fable of the mouse who pictures himself king of all animals, originated with the Panchatantra. Tudor Vianu indicated that, in writing his book on morals (Hristoitia), Pann integrated text from Desiderius Erasmus' Adagia.
As an original element, Anton Pann used the diverse sources of his work to complement his own view of the world; according to Vianu, the latter's main traits were Pann's religious tolerance and fervor, as well as his Levantine outlook on social matters. Călinescu defined Povestea vorbei as "a false collection of folklore, given that Pann does not abide by peasant authenticity, but embellishes popular language with the cultured one, often obtaining an amazing chromatic effect". While commenting on Pann's focus on social developments of his time as "the completely mechanical ease with which current issues are put into verse", Călinescu noted that Hristoitia contained "advices which presume a state of supreme animality".
Pann's literary creation was noted for its reliance on a vast oral tradition, which he claimed to have codified, thus drawing comparisons to his predecessors Rabelais, Giovanni Boccaccio, and Miguel de Cervantes. The Romanian literary critic George Călinescu drew a direct comparison between Pann and his contemporary, the Wallachian Jewish peddler Cilibi Moise, who, without producing any written works, was made famous by a series of bitter puns in which he referred to himself in the third person (such as "For a few years now, Cilibi Moise has been begging Poverty to leave his house, at the very least for as long as it takes him to get dressed").
Together with Ion Creangă and Petre Ispirescu, Pann was among the first major interpreters of Romanian folklore in 19th-century literature. Appealing primarily to a semi-educated audience, his creations have been celebrated for their familiar tone and use of plain Romanian, during a period when literary language was beginning to rely on formalism and a large number of neologisms. The writer himself made frequent excuses to the more educated of his readers for any flaws they were to find in his texts, specifying that he lacked in formal training. In the final decades of his life, several of his printed works, especially Memorialul focului mare and the manele lyrics collection Spitalul amorului, came to be appreciated by a younger generation of boyars. The Moldavian poet Vasile Alecsandri noted, in an 1872 letter quoted by Garabet Ibrăileanu: "Anton Pann has not yet been appreciated to his full value, and moreover, in Wallachia his merits are even being held in contempt by most modern men of letters".
Pann's poetic language often relies on elaborate successions of images, metaphors, or maxims. According to Călinescu, "the fundamental method" used by Pann is "the almost monstrous accumulation of aphorism, around an initial idea and through a very wide [process of] association", amounting to "a burlesque effect".
Almost all of Pann's work drew on recent or ancient sources, which he reinterpreted to suit the tastes of his public. In the 1880s, the scholar Moses Gaster revealed that one of Pann's major works, Înţeleptul Archir şi nepotul său Anadam ("The Wise Archir and His Nephew Anadam"), made ingenious use of an old and much-circulated biography of Aesop. In researching various fables which Pann had used to expand on his proverbs, Gaster noted that they echoed obscure medieval material (including the Gesta Romanorum, Giulio Cesare Croce's Le sottilissime astutie di Bertoldo, and even Siberian Turkic folklore). One of his main pieces, the fable of the mouse who pictures himself king of all animals, originated with the Panchatantra. Tudor Vianu indicated that, in writing his book on morals (Hristoitia), Pann integrated text from Desiderius Erasmus' Adagia.
As an original element, Anton Pann used the diverse sources of his work to complement his own view of the world; according to Vianu, the latter's main traits were Pann's religious tolerance and fervor, as well as his Levantine outlook on social matters. Călinescu defined Povestea vorbei as "a false collection of folklore, given that Pann does not abide by peasant authenticity, but embellishes popular language with the cultured one, often obtaining an amazing chromatic effect". While commenting on Pann's focus on social developments of his time as "the completely mechanical ease with which current issues are put into verse", Călinescu noted that Hristoitia contained "advices which presume a state of supreme animality".
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November 1, 2020
Honestly I think you can read the whole Romanian philosophy and you wouldn't find a more sincere and direct insight into this part of Romanian culture.
January 28, 2022
Aideţi să vorbim degeabă,
Că tot n-avem nici o treabă;
Fiindcă Gura nu cere chirie,
Poate vorbi orce fie.
De multe ori însă Vorba,
din vorbă în vorbă,
A ajuns şi la cociorbă.
Şi atunci vine proverbul:
Vorba pe unde a ieşit
Mai bine să fi tuşit.
De aceea Când vrei să vorbeşti, la gură
-"Să aibi lacăt şi măsură.
Adică:
Vezi bârna din ochiul tău
Şi nu vorbi de alt rău...
Că tot n-avem nici o treabă;
Fiindcă Gura nu cere chirie,
Poate vorbi orce fie.
De multe ori însă Vorba,
din vorbă în vorbă,
A ajuns şi la cociorbă.
Şi atunci vine proverbul:
Vorba pe unde a ieşit
Mai bine să fi tuşit.
De aceea Când vrei să vorbeşti, la gură
-"Să aibi lacăt şi măsură.
Adică:
Vezi bârna din ochiul tău
Şi nu vorbi de alt rău...
September 25, 2022
11 septembrie: citit primul volum din seriat BPT (4 stele)
25 septembrie: citit al doilea volum din aceeași serie (5 stele)
o enciclopedie a firii românului (ca să nu spun a sufletului). Anton Pann a intrat în orizontul de scriitori pe care nu-i mai pot scăpa cu privirea. păcat că nu e studiat (nici măcar la nivel universitar) așa cum ar trebui. actualitatea sa mă înfioară.
25 septembrie: citit al doilea volum din aceeași serie (5 stele)
o enciclopedie a firii românului (ca să nu spun a sufletului). Anton Pann a intrat în orizontul de scriitori pe care nu-i mai pot scăpa cu privirea. păcat că nu e studiat (nici măcar la nivel universitar) așa cum ar trebui. actualitatea sa mă înfioară.
July 27, 2024
O carte excelelntă.
Multe lucruri s-au schimbat și umorul a evoluat de acum 200 de ani dar este incă foarte interesant de citit această carte. Proverbele ca proverbele - unele înțelepte, altele mai mult superstiții.
Fascinant e că multe suprstiții încă s-au păstrat (când vine vorba de femei, oameni de alte naționalități), chiar dacă modul de viață a românilor s-a schimbat.
Este o carte foarte amuzantă, o ușă spre trecut așa cum era: vesel chiar dacă plin de necazuri; cu oameni prietenoși chiar dacă cam sexiști.
Orice român ar trebui să ofere aceste cărți o șansă, pentru cât de amuzantă este și pentru a vedea cumn s-a schimbat limba pe care o vorbim, în ultimii 200 ani.
Multe lucruri s-au schimbat și umorul a evoluat de acum 200 de ani dar este incă foarte interesant de citit această carte. Proverbele ca proverbele - unele înțelepte, altele mai mult superstiții.
Fascinant e că multe suprstiții încă s-au păstrat (când vine vorba de femei, oameni de alte naționalități), chiar dacă modul de viață a românilor s-a schimbat.
Este o carte foarte amuzantă, o ușă spre trecut așa cum era: vesel chiar dacă plin de necazuri; cu oameni prietenoși chiar dacă cam sexiști.
Orice român ar trebui să ofere aceste cărți o șansă, pentru cât de amuzantă este și pentru a vedea cumn s-a schimbat limba pe care o vorbim, în ultimii 200 ani.
January 28, 2025
Evident, când vorbim despre cărți apărute acum aproape două sute de ani (1847, anul primei apariții) trebuie să le privim cu un filtru cât se poate de obiectiv. Unele nu trec examenul timpului, altele, prin calitatea scriituri sau prin perenitatea aspectelor aduse în discuție, rămân la fel de interesante și în ziua de azi.
Este și cazul Poveștii Vorbei. Vocabularul limbii române s-a schimbat, gramatica nu mai este aceeași, cetățenii sunt cu totul alții. Și totuși...
Este și cazul Poveștii Vorbei. Vocabularul limbii române s-a schimbat, gramatica nu mai este aceeași, cetățenii sunt cu totul alții. Și totuși...
July 7, 2024
G. Dem. Teodorescu ne spune că la înmormântarea lui Anton Pann, pe acesta îl plâng toate cele trei soții, copiii aflați în viața și, suprem omagiu, ,,miile de oameni, care-i admiraseră talentul și învãțaserã a citi numai prin și numai pentru atrãgãtoarele-i scrieri."
June 11, 2021
”Ăst lucru l-aș face-ndată,
Dar n-am cine să mă bată.”
Dar n-am cine să mă bată.”
August 20, 2025
Foarte underrated.
November 3, 2024
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