HERMENEUTICA MITULUI ANTIC LA EUGEN SIMION: JURNALUL ÎNTRE PROTEU ȘI CIRCE

Victoria FONARI Universitatea de Stat din Moldova

Abstract

HERMENEUTICS OF THE ANCIENT MYTH IN EUGEN SIMION: THE DIARY BETWEEN PROTEUS AND CIRCE In this article we explain the importance of the ancient myth in the genuine interpretation of Eugen Simion. Although in his fundamental work, “Fiction of an Intimate Diary”, we find references to several mythical characters, this article focuses on two metamorphoses of the diarist noted by acad. Eugen Simion: Proteus and Circe. The hermeneutics of the myth, a branch of hermeneutics, comprises ways of interpreting an artistic text which, in order to elucidate the stages and contexts of image transformation from an ontological image to an image recreated by the writer, explains the reasons for the author's choices in achieving such metamorphosis and identifies its impact towards genuine reception of concepts that reveals new connotations, and sublimates the previous ones. We selected the hermeneutics of the myth in order to investigate the connotations of the ancient myth and its mutations in Eugen Simion's critical discourse. Transformation is the pillar on which the researcher relies and on which he bases his selection of Proteus and Circe. We believe that it is important to explain the differences of these initiates of metamorphoses in order to perceive the role of rebuilding the myth that contributes to the perspective of recognition. The receiver remains in an exercise of creative acceptance of the myth. In Eugen Simion's study, the secondary becomes paramount. Keywords: mythical hermeneutics, diary, diarist, Proteus, Circe, metamorphosis, literary criticism, Eugen Simion.