Liliacul angelic
Rezumat
The Angelic Bat
Dimitrie Cantemir is the first Romanian writer who takes the freedom to disobey the medieval convention on the symbol; in his baroque literature, he uses a large area of symbols, but not in their spirit; he modifies them according to his aesthetic aims. In this particular case of our investigation, he transforms the bat into an intelligent and courageous character, who dares to oppose all the animals for the truth’s sake; the transformation is rather surprising, as long as in all European bestiaries the bat was quite unanimously considered to be an epitomic figureof (d)evil.
Keywords: Romanian literature, Dimitrie Cantemir, bestiaries, symbolical animals, bat.
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