2022
Aplauze pentru poet • Ion Minulescu
Poezii: “Epilog sentimental”, “Ultima oră”, “Romanța tineretii”, “Ploaia Sfântului Ilie”, “Acuarela”, “Peisaj umed”, “Cântecul nebunului”, “Păpuşa automată”, “Celei care pleaca”, “Romanța celor 3 romanțe”, “Romanța retrospectiva”, “Romanța meschină”, “Sinuciderea unui anonim”, “Fetiţa din Făgădău”
Recită actorii Victor Rebengiuc, Rodica Mandache, Mihai Mălaimare
Filmări realizate în noiembrie 2021, la Sala ArCuB Bucureşti
Otilia Cazimir
b. 12 February 1894, Cotu Vameș, Neamț – d. 8 June 1967, Jassy
Writer, poet, translator, journalist
Nicknamed ‘the poet of simple souls,’ Otilia Cazimir is remembered mainly for her children’s poetry, her best-known poem being ‘Old Woman Winter comes to the Village.’
Part of the Viața Românească (Romanian Life) literary circle in Jassy, she started out writing poems imbued with the mawkish lyricism of the group’s ethereal back-to-the-traditional-village values. She was a prolific writer who over the course of her literary career was awarded a number of prestigious prizes: the Romanian Academy Prize and the Femina Hereuse Prize (1927), the National Prize for Literature (1937), the Medal of Labour (1949), and the Order of Labour, First Class (1964). She enjoyed universal admiration and was regarded as a major figure of interbellum literature, particularly in Jassy, where she lived.
Some of her more remarkable collections of poetry are Light and Shadows (Viața Românească, Jassy, 1923), Moths (Cartea Românească, Bucharest, 1926), Treasure Song (Editura Națională S. Ciornei, Bucharest, 1931), Toys (Bucharest, 1938), Poems (King Carol II Foundation for Literature and Art, Bucharest, 1939), Katinka and Katyusha, Two Girls from Next-door (co-author: T. Kiriacoff-Suruceanu, Editura Cartea Rusă, Bucharest, 1947), Old Woman Winter Comes to the Village (Editura Tineretului, Bucharest, 1954), Poems (1956), Poems (with a preface by Constantin Ciopraga, Editura de Stat pentru Literatură și Artă, Bucharest, 1957), Poems, (Bucharest, 1959), and the posthumous The Hedgehog Emperor (Editura Ion Creangă, 1985).
Her poems are nostalgic in tone, ballad-like, rich in tender description, foregrounding nature, but only in order to speak of poet’s constant inner ferment, about loves lost, about solitude and the unsparing passage of time.
