Abstract
The Romanian apriorism, the presumed autochthonous ancestral mentality had no means to express itself through tragic drama in the antiquity. Thus the playwright Lucian Blaga introduces the presumptive conception by means of modern methods, the author being concerned with the metamorphosis of the native spirituality from prehistory to the ontological failure of modern times.
With regards to "Avram Iancu" the mythical dimension seems to grow indistinct due to the historical facts. It reduces itself to the appearance of the protagonist from the legend and his final departure into the legend.
Yet the well documented plot of the historical drama is merely an opportunity to cogitate on the insinuation of the absolute in the fatal development of the daily existence towards the "original, archetypal and eternal phenomenon".