REZONANTE MODERNE ÎN RELATIA EVENIMENT ISTORIC - IMAGINAR ARTISTIC ÎN "ISTORIA IEROGLIFICA" DE DIMITRIE CANTEMIR

Created in a narrative symbolic key, the first cult novel of Romanian spirituality, Dimitrie Cantemir's "Historia Hieroglyphica", becomes a handbook on politics and a philosophical essay meant to substantiate that the inner freedom of the writer's consciousness guarantees the connection of historical reasons to poetic imagination. The lasting part of the novel is specific to the humanistic dimension, the discourse of the characters created behind animal masks proving to be the major means of characterisation, which turns history into a novel of ideas. The variety of linguistic registers upholds the modern aspect of the roman à clef, the reader finding oneself in front of a bas-relief of forms and movement. In the present paper we wish to highlight the elements of modernity of a work belonging to old Romanian culture while following the author's vision, the historical event and the connection between document and artistic techniques. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]