DOINA POLOGEA, Bartolomeu Valeriu Anania: Memories of the Apterous Peregrine, formula of the
fantastic open to the sacred
The book Memories of the Apterous Peregrine is not only a unique literary work, but also a moving
document of life. It is the story that could not be arrested. It has an unusual history and matrix
space. It was conceived under the ground, a few meters below the grass, in the prisons of Jilava and
Aiud, in the “academy” of the forty intellectuals with heavy sentences. The universe of the book is
built on old myths and legends woven, this time, around the monasteries of Oltenia, and propensity
for archetypal worlds almost takes the liturgical form of participation in ceremony of the sacred.
Keywords: Bartolomeu Valeriu Anania, Memories of the Apterous Peregrine, sacred, myths,
monasteries of Oltenia

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