Bøger af Lucian Blaga

Lucian Blaga (1895-1961) is judged by many to be Romania's most original philosopher and greatest poet of the twentieth century. While scholars with access to his works in Romanian are well-aware of their importance, his work has remained, up to now, little known in the English-speaking world. This book represents the one of the first efforts to make Blaga's work accessible to a wider audience. This book is a complete collection of Blaga's poetry, translated into English by Brenda Walker and Stelian Apostolescu. A joint publishing project with UNESCO, this book includes an introduction by Keith Hitchins of the University of Illinois, one of the leading historians of Romania in the United States and a scholar intimately acquainted with Blaga's life and work. In it, he discusses the importance of Blaga's life and work.

The present volume includes the majority of Lucian Blaga's (1895-1961) poetry written before the Communist era. Before the communists banned the publishing of his works, he wrote and had published some 7 books of poetry, a dozen plays, and two dozen works on philosophy.Though nominated for the Nobel Prize, the communist Romanian government of the time sent emissaries to block the nomination. His work is now widely recognized and read in Romania and Europe today.

Zalmoxis is Lucian Blaga's first play and one of his most important literary works. It underlines much of his philosophy and also reflects his poetry.