Template:Did you know nominations/Poor Dionis

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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 05:23, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

Poor Dionis

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... that a rhyming passage from Mihai Eminescu's novel Poor Dionis proposes "that this world is merely dreamland and a cat's fantastic vision"? Source: Leon Levițchi's translation, in Garber (ed.), Romantic Irony, 2008, p. 196.
- ALT1:... that Mihai Eminescu's novel of 1872, Poor Dionis, would be "illegible, were it not for the beauty of each passage"? Iorga, pp. 145–146: "Sărmanul Dionis [...] amestecă într'un chip care ar fi ilegibil fără frumusețea fiecărui pasagiu în parte și fără magia stilului elemente culese mai de pretutindeni" ("Sărmanul Dionis [...] pours in, in a manner that would be illegible, were it not for the beauty of each passage and its stylistic magic, elements picked up just about anywhere").
- ALT2:... that readers who identified Mihai Eminescu with his character Dionis were surprised to discover that Eminescu was "stout and round-faced", "short-haired and dressed like any other"? Pârvulescu: "Vlahuţă, cu 8 ani mai mic decât [Eminescu], dă o mărturie sociologică cât se poate de interesantă despre cum era privit Eminescu de tineri pe la 1880. În gimnaziu, [...] îşi construise mental un portret romantic al autorului iubit, după chipul şi asemănarea lui Dionis: tânăr, subţire, înalt, palid, cu plete ondulate, mergând 'ca un somnambul, parc-ar pluti'. [...] Într-o zi, întorcându-se cu câţiva prieteni de la Universitate, aude pe unul, în dosul Pasajului Român [...], 'Uite, Eminescu!'. Şi, povesteşte Vlahuţă: 'Toţi ne oprim să-l vedem. Un domn în vârstă, bine făcut, rotund la faţă, fără plete, îmbrăcat ca toţi oamenii...îl văd suindu-se-n tramvai'." ("Vlahuță, 8 years younger than [Eminescu], provides us with a very interesting sociological record of how Eminescu was seen by youth circa 1880. In secondary school, [...] he had conjured in his mind a romantic portrait of his beloved author, his face and appearance those of Dionis: young, slim, tall, pale-faced, wearing his hair long and curled, pacing about 'like a sleepwalker, as if floating'. [...] One day, as he and his friends were walking back from University, they hear this fella, from behind the Roman Gallery [...], 'Hey look, that's Eminescu!'. And so, Vlahuță writes: 'We all stopped to catch sight of him. A stout and round-faced, aging, man, short-haired and dressed like any other... there he is about to catch his trolley'.")

Reviewed: Gaston Marie Jacquier

Created by Dahn (talk). Self-nominated at 10:24, 26 June 2017 (UTC).

Excellent detailed work! Plenty of good sources, Romanian accepted AGF. Go to GA after this! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:58, 6 July 2017 (UTC)