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- Title
EXILE AS A STATE OF BEING: TAKING REFUGE IN THE UTOPIA OF WORDS AND SURVIVING THROUGH POETRY.
- Authors
IVAN, Sorin
- Abstract
In Ion Caraion's poetry, exile is a recurring theme, of extraordinary poetic power. This power is rooted in the fact that, more than a theme, in Caraion's case, exile is a state of being, the state of being of the poet in the world. His poetic universe must be viewed in relation to his life, a tragic existence, in a cruel and absurd history. From this perspective, the theme of exile reveals its complexity and tragism. It becomes acute after the poet's final departure in Switzerland, in 1981, to the end of his life (1986), in a fierce communist period, when the totalitarian regime evolves towards its climax. In his last years, the poet lives, at paroxysmal intensity, the exile condition, in all its forms: the geographical exile, the linguistic exile, the exile in space and time, the political exile, the ontological exile, the inner exile. Poetry becomes a form of survival, the refuge in a utopia of words and in the transcendence of ideas, in the last, supreme, exile, the aesthetic exile, beyond time, beyond being and non-being. In the context of this thematic universe, of a tragic essence, Caraion's poetry knows remarkable aesthetic metamorphoses, in an essentially expressionist key.
- Subjects
CARAION, Ion; COMMUNISM; ONTOLOGY; EXPRESSIONISM (Philosophy); POETRY (Literary form)
- Publication
Meridian Critic, 2013, Vol 21, Issue 2, p103
- ISSN
2069-6787
- Publication type
Article