Onirism

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Onirism is a Romanian literary current.

The Romanian oniric group has a coherent aesthetic program. It was set up in 1964, around a nucleus formed of Dumitru Ţepeneag and Leonid Dimov, poets and writers who were members of the "Luceafărul" literary circle.

The editor-in-chief of the magazine Luceafărul was Eugen Barbu at the time. There they got to know Virgil Mazilescu, Vintilă Ivănceanu, and Iulian Neacşu, and would be later joined by Daniel Turcea, Florin Gabrea, Emil Brumaru, Sorin Titel, Virgil Tănase, etc.

After Eugen Barbu was replaced as leader of the circle by the ex-avantgarde writer Miron Radu Paraschivescu, the latter is allowed by the publisher to publish a poetry and prose suppliment of the magazine Ramuri (the suppliment would be called "Povestea vorbei"), which he wants to transform into a new avant-garde magazine that would unite the old and new oniric poets and writers.

In 1966, Vintilă Ivănceanu, Dumitru Ţepeneag, Leonid Dimov şi Virgil Mazilescu would publish there. But the magazine was quickly banned. Starting in 1968, the center of the oniric movement moved toward the Luceafărul magazine, where, besides the above-mentioned poets and writers, Emil Brumaru, Florin Gabrea, Sorin Titel, Daniel Turcea, etc. would publish.

With vague roots in the world oniric literature, especially in the German Romantic area, considered by some critics to be a current related to surrealism, but also rather close to the new French novel, the group was quickly banned by Romanian censorship. Dumitru Ţepeneag was forced to go into exile in Paris.

The many theoretical texts that were left have recently been collected into a book by Corin Braga, who is a continuator of the aesthetics of onirism, which extends into post-modernism through the works of Mircea Cărtărescu.

[edit] References

• Dimov, Leonid & Ţepeneag, Dumitru (1997). Momentul oniric. Bucharest: Cartea Românească
• Bârna, Nicolae (1998). Ţepeneag. Introducere într-o lume de hârtie. Bucharest: Albatros
• Buciu, Marian Victor (1998). Ţepeneag între onirism, textualism, postmodernism. Craiova: Aius
• Pavel, Laura (2007). Dumitru Ţepeneag şi canonul literaturii alternative. Cluj: Casa Cǎrţii de Ştiinţǎ
• Dimov, Leonid & Ţepeneag, Dumitru (2007). Onirismul estetic. Bucharest: Curtea Veche

Categories:Literary currents