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Lucian Blaga and the reassessment of the unconscious in the expressionist drama "Ivanca"

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2012

Abstract

Styling in art has both the lure and the hazard to oscillate between the achievement through the aesthetic sublime and the unfulfillment in the marginal areas of the aesthetic that bear the name kitsch. A cycle of intellectual concerns of the author Lucian Blaga are embodied in the existential obsessions of the characters of the drama "Ivanca" in such a way that the artistic transfiguration at an elevated level makes easy way for the conceptual and formal schematization, with uncertain outcomes.

The essential features of the new drama do not produce intellectual or artistic revelations, they are not outposts of a bridgehead but suggest a lonely dead end, an itinerary that may be interesting for its path, but is also surprising for its incapacity to find a different solution of the resolution, other than conventional patterns. "The deed" of Luca the painter may be accounted for positive constraint of the hence enlightened obsessions. "The deed" of the playwright Lucian Blaga looks more like a stalemate.