Rezumat. În volumele sale de Fragmente, Eugen Simion reia și nuanțează reflecțiile sale asupra literaturii, culturii și civilizației românești. Fragmente VI dezbat probleme, precum autonomia esteticului, avantajele și pericolele revizuirilor, miturile literaturii române, morala publică și privată a scriitorului, limitele compromisului, rezistența prin cultură etc. Pledoaria pentru clasici, apărarea marilor scriitori de injurii și nedreptățile zilei, lupta pentru valorile naționale se înscriu într-un program constant de asumare a tot ce este esențial și durabil în literatura și cultura română. Aceste reflecţii şi pledoarii reprezintă dovada faptului că, în creația lui Eugen Simion, încrederea nestrămutată în literatura română, dublată de încrederea în vocația criticului de a lucra în numele adevărului estetic au rămas intacte de-a lungul timpului.

Cuvinte-cheie: revizuire, rezistenţă, recitire, criteriu estetic, redefinire valorică

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The Bessarabian novel. Poetics of resentment (I) 

  Abstract: This text is excerpted from a study of unloved children from the literature written in Bessarabia.How do these children not loved by their parents grow up? What are the consequences in adulthood? How does their spiritual behaviour evolve when theu are adults? The first „case of study” is the novel „The summer when my mother’s eyes were green” by Tatiana Țîbuleac. The novel’s impact is due to the force with which the author artistically transfigured the great, almost improbable, human dramas, in which the clear distinctions between lucidity and madness, tenderness and hatred, vulnerability and strength disappear, in which the sublime is intertwined with the tragic, the suffering with the joy, the life with the death. This novel, through a polychrome amalgam of human feelings’ registers, skilfully orchestrated stylistically and with a well-structured narrative thread, releases through all pores the verisimilitude.

Keywords: death, suffering, cancer, forgiveness, love, hate, mother, green eyes.

The use of the Romanian Language in the Civil Regional Tribunal of Bessarabia (1818-1869)

Abstract: In this article, based on the information from the archives and the bibliographical sources of that time, it is examined the functioning of the Romanian language in the sphere of justice in the Bessarabian context, in the conditions of a  diglossia linguistic situation established de jure on the 23rd of July 1812. It is also reflected the mode and the level of use of the Romanian language by the Regional Civil Tribunal of Bessarabia (1818-1869).

Keywords: social field, language functioning, diglossic linguistic situation, immigrant language, sociocultural framework.

The night regime of the gastronomic imaginary in literature

or about the unusual character of the food

Abstract:In this article we aim to address the subject of food in literature as an eminently negative factor. Viewed through the prism of the “nocturnal regime of the imaginary” (G. Durand)food can be represented by the mystery of darkness,so that a clear aspect of the “kitchen motif that doubles as an anti-kitchen” (Claude Lévi-Stauss) is fully outlined.We will bring as examples fragments and analyzes of texts from curses, fairy tales, stories, literary texts that containallusions to the gastronomy of negative menus/predispositions that influence personal human behaviorand the negative propensity on others fragments of myths that contain clues about gastronomy and the origin of food in a negative context.We will refer to the indirect description of the character starting from the consumption of food as displeasure,need or habit.We will reflect on the consumption of strange/shocking foodwho turn the characters into superheroes (they have unsuspected powers, they can do what they previously couldn’t),or it put them under the sign of disgrace and repulsion.

Keywords: nocturnal, displeasure, anti-cooking, negative, food, imaginary, disgrace.