👤Author
Name: Gisèle Vanhese
Affiliation: Universitatea din Calabria (Italia)
Contact: gvanhese@unical.it
📄Article
Citation Recommendation: VANHESE, Gisèle. „Eugen Simion. Un exégète de la profondeur”. În: RITL, New Series, XIX, January-December 2025, p. 7-22. doi: 10.59277/2025.19.01.
Titlul: EUGEN SIMION. UN EXÉGÈTE DE LA PROFONDEUR
Title: EUGEN SIMION. AN EXEGETE OF PROFUNDITY
Pages: 7-22
Language: French
URL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2025/1_G_Vanhese.pdf
DOI: 10.59277/ritl.2025.19.01
Abstract: In the opening address of the Eugen Simion – modèles de critique littéraire roumaine, we examine one of the critical trajectories that define Eugen Simion’s vast and multifaceted oeuvre: the mythic perspective. This dimension is most clearly articulated in his seminal exegesis of Mircea Eliade as a novelist (Mircea Eliade. Nodurile şi semnele prozei), which we analyze, from this vantage point, in the first part of our study. As we further argue in the second part, Simion’s theoretical enterprise in The Return of the Author (Întoarcerea autorului) appears to be structured around a mythic narrative – the tale of Diana and Actaeon – that comes to symbolize the quest for unity within the literary work, a unity that less discerning critics risk fragmenting. Moreover, Simion advances this vision beyond the limits of literary criticism itself, extending it, in a characteristically prophetic gesture, to a broader cultural phenomenon: migrant literature. It is our contention that, with Eugen Simion, we encounter above all what might be described as an Isidian trajectory – one that privileges the reassembly of what has been divided over the Osirian experience of dismemberment. This Isidian path of reconstruction and dialogue also finds expression in his role as an architect of major intellectual projects and, we may add, in the very fabric of his own life.
Keywords: Eugen Simion, Mircea Eliade, Jean Starobinski, Yves Bonnefoy, hermeneutics, myth criticism, imagery, myth, symbol.
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