Traian Demetrescu – gestul estetic
Traian Demetrescu – The Aesthetic Gesture
The symbolist Romanian poet Traian Demetrescu wrote a few articles and an essay discussing the limits of aesthetics and poetry outside of the poem itself. The writer captures poetic moments, in Laurent Jenny’s terms, preceding the writing of the poem or simply existing outside of it. It confers to some situations and objects the attribute of poeticity; consequently, a series of objects appear to him as endowed with a sort of poetic expressiveness. Traian Demetrescu thus realizes the widening of the perception of the poem at the moment when the Romanian culture steped into the first modernist stage at the end of the 19th century.
Keywords: Romanian pre-war literature, symbolism, Traian Demetrescu, poetic vs. prosaic, aesthetic gesture, pre-war aesthetic
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