20-24 septembrie 2009 - Biblioteca Metropolitana Bucuresti

882 Ana SelejanMoldavian people: as if the paintings from Voroneţ and other places (…)were spreading powers beyond their colours. It is of course a matter of themiraculous powers of the godly grace which is here in these high places,high in its most purely meaning of the spirit; these powers are destinedto the Moldavian people, the Wallahians and before to the Getae, in anatural way. Superior beings marked by the errors of the material worldbut ‟opened to the unique soul” as the Dacian priest said (Ovid, MatteoMuriano, Della Porta, Aloisio Loredan etc.) come to look for these powersof the spirit, from ancient times and different places of the earth.At this level of interpretation, Vintilă Horia gets near Mircea Eliade’sdemonstration about occulting the myth in front of the human being fromcivilised and technicized societies which took him his entire life.And there are other significances that Vintilă Horia suggest in hisnovels. Because, using a monotonous narration without any shinningand adventures of the form, the author underlines stratified symbols. Thenarrative incursions in history are just apparently historical novels. Theyalways have extensions, arches towards the personal drama or towardscontemporaneousness. As epical formula, if we use Hermann Broch’ssyntagm Vintilă Horia’s novels could be called poly-historical novelsin which the rhetorical interrogation combines itself with the modernexistential interrogation (individual or social) and especially with spiritualreflection. Written almost entirely in other languages, translated in evenmore languages, Vintilă Horia’s work contributed (next to the work ofMartha Bibescu, Panait Istrati, Mircea Eliade, Constantin Virgil Gheorghiuetc.) to the knowledge outside the Rumanian space – as centre of orientalLatinity, of a specific Romanian model to make history and remain ineternity.