ADRIAN MARINO LA CENTENAR

On September 5, this year, it was 100 years since the birth of the great Romanian scholar Adrian Marino! The discretion, to put it euphemistically, with which the national cultural institutions marked the "moment", led the Aius Publishing House and the Mozaicul magazine to initiate the celebration of the "Romanian and European at the same time" ideo-critic since the 80s, in Craiova, in partnership with the Craiova University, the Craiova Branch of the Writers' Union of Romania and the "Alexandru și Aristia Aman" Dolj County Library. The project, submitted to the Dolj County Council, entered the plenary debate of this institution and, on Wednesday, September 29, 2021, it was unanimously approved. Why "the Village did what the Man did not", I will try to argue, succinctly, in the following lines. Although born in Iași, trained in Bucharest under the mentorship of G. Călinescu, but also of Tudor Vianu, spending the years of his early youth (8+6) in communist prisons and compulsory residence in Lătești - in Bărăgan, "exiled" until the end of his life in Cluj, where he enjoyed the unconditional love and exemplary support of Lady Lidia Bote, an intellectual of great consistency through her work on reference "Romanian Symbolism", Adrian Marino was determined to have constant, determining connections with Bănia, from the very dawn of his intellectual life. (...) Adrian Marino will come to Craiova and Goiești-Dolj, for documentation, and in the years leading up to the publication of his doctoral thesis "The Life of Alexandru Macedonski", where he enjoyed a good reception and support from the local and county public authorities. But, undeniably, his long collaboration with Ramuri magazine, starting in 1967, at the invitation of his former colleague from the University of Bucharest, Alexandru Piru, Dean of the Faculty of Letters of the young University of Craiova and director of "Ramurilor", marked a turning point in the relationship with Bănia. The students, writers and intellectuals from Craiova eagerly waited for each issue of "Ramurilor" to read the two pages, mirrored, signed by Al. Piru and Adrian Marino.