On Thursday 25 November at 7 p.m., as part of the Alexandru Busuioceanu Debates, the Instituto Rumano de Cultura is offering an approach to the poetic work of Nichita Stănescu, a literary meeting with the participation of the writer Clara Janés and the Hispanist Ioana Zlotescu, mediated by Luminița Pigui.
Nichita Stănescu (1933-1983) has been highly valued and appreciated since his early days as a poet, and is sometimes considered by literary critics as the most important poet of the 1960s generation, representing a true resurrection of lyricism in Romania. He was made a post-mortem member of the Romanian Academy. Nichita Stănescu shows his readers “a sense of love” and “a vision of feelings”, as the titles of his 1960 and 1964 collections of poems aptly put it. After these expressions of his early age and his trust in time that seem to forgive and allow everything to the human being, his writing transforms into a more intellectual lyric (11 elegii-11 elegies, 1966), obsessed with the symbol of the perfect sphere and its forms on earth. He received the Herder Prize in 1975, the Golden Crown Prize of the Struga Poetry Nights Festival (Macedonia) in 1982 and was a candidate for the Nobel Prize in 1979.
