ELEMENTS OF SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN THE LITERARY WORKS OF VIRGIL GHEORGHIU
Accepted
28 March 2026
Available Online
15 March 2016
Abstract
IN THIS STUDY, THE AUTHORS ANALYSE THE IMPORTANT ELEMENTS OF SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN THE LITERARY WORKS OF THE WRITER VIRGIL GHOERGHIU (1916-1992). ON THE BASIS OF THE FIERCE EXPERIENCES HE UNDERWENT IN DIFFERENT EPOCHS AND UNDER VARIOUS FORMS OF DICTATORSHIP, THE WRITER TRANSFERRED MANY ELEMENTS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY INTO HIS NOVELS AND POEMS. AMONGST THESE ELEMENTS, SOME BELONG TO SPIRITUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY;
THEIR IMPORTANCE RESIDES BOTH IN THEIR STYLISTIC VALUE AND IN THE WAY THEY DEPICT CERTAIN ASPECTS OF HIS INNER FRAME OF MIND. THE AUTHORS SELECT ASPECTS RELATED TO THIS LITERARY AND THEOLOGICAL GENRE FROM THE TOME OF POEMS CALIGRAFIE PE ZĂPADĂ (CALLIGRAPHY ON SNOW) AND FROM VARIOUS NOVELS, SUCH AS THE TWENTY-FIFTH HOUR, THEY ANALYSE AND PRESENT THEM IN THIS RESEARCH PAPER, POINTING TO THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MAIN SPIRITUAL TRIBULATIONS OF THE ROMANIAN WRITER WHO EMIGRATED TO FRANCE AND WAS THEN ORDAINED PRIEST OF THE ROMANIAN COMMUNITY IN PARIS. MOREOVER, RESORTING TO SOME OF HIS WORKS’ REVIEWS, THE AUTHORS TRY TO SEE HOW MUCH OF HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY IS REVIVED IN HIS WORKS. THIS RESEARCH, A FIRST IN THE ROMANIAN SPACE, SETS OFF TO FILL A GAP IN THIS FIELD AND BRING THE PERSONALITY OF THIS ROMANIAN WRITER BACK IN THE LIMELIGHT.
Keywords
PRAYER
EXILE
DICTATORSHIP
SADNESS
GOD.
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