MASCA LUI BACOVIA

It was natural for the work of a creator as original as Bacovia to generate difficulties of framing in a preconceived poetic formula. Extremely modern, not only through the underground, tragic, anguishing background of his creation, but also through the syncopated effects of his poetic expression, Bacovia aroused, over a century of critical reception, divergent opinions. In his case, it was spoken, with equal justification, especially about the „fatal picture”, about the „pleasure of artificiality”, about the fact that he „organizes his disorganization”, that „in the effect of the non-lucidity that he develops there is hidden an appreciable coefficient of artistic lucidity” and „that he is a technician of the illusion of elementality” (Vl. Streinu), that „his art consists in putting feelings under brief, simplifying masks” (D. Micu), that „it is modern because it shocks” and that it is characterized by a „deliberate paroxysm of sensation” (N. Manolescu), that „disapproved prose” feeds „the prejudice of a sentimental Bacovia” (Gh. Grigurcu) etc. What is certain is that Bacovia – even in relation to the international lyrical framework – remains one of the great classics of European literature of the last century…