Reminiscenţe medievale în opera Doinei Ruşti

"After debuting with a remarkable essay on the relationship between Blaga's poetry and Baroque aesthetics, the young Adrian Badea returns to the stage of literary criticism with a book that discusses how Doina Ruști's novels (re)value specific elements of the Phanariot era in our country: from patriarchal mentalities and the belief in undead from Zogru to the archetype of the witch, miraculous healings, the use of curses or the belief in charms, cures, potions and magical powers from the Manuscrisul Fanariot, Mâța Vinerii or Homeric novels. The present book shows us, once again, the qualities of a historian and literary hermeneutic of Adrian Badea who writes passionately about the chosen subject and captivates with his erudition and analytical sophistication." Petrișor Militaru "In her novels, Zogru, Manuscrisul Fanariot, Mâța Vinerii, Homeric, Doina Ruști recovers from the Romanian mediaeval orality a mythic-religious imaginary that she brings closer to an urban world anchored in past centuries, however, having a permanent care for the authenticity conferred sometimes by the folklore vein, sometimes by the historical document. Doina Ruști admirably "paints" with words a past world, re-semanticizing it and offering it to today's reader, already familiar with the pluripotent fantastic beings of contemporary visual culture. Adrian Badea's book succeeds in shedding light on all these aspects, first, through an analysis that identifies the mythic-religious substratum and the socio-historical content traced along a diachronic thread, then, through a hermeneutic approach that equally highlights the genesis of these novels from the pers-pective the author and their purpose to be a potential experience in knowing the current Romanian culture." Florica (Bohîlțea) Mihuț