| Title: | Alexandru Odobescu - Ten mythological tales. A comparative study of the tale “Demeter’s passions” |
| Author: | Egina Maria Buftea |
| Publication: | Diversité et identité culturelle en Europe, V, p. 62 |
| p-ISSN: | 2067-0931 |
| Publisher: | Editura Muzeul Literaturii Române |
| Place: | București |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Abstract: | Odobescu was specifically concerned on mythological tales, which found in his translation the form that brings them closer to legends and even closer to the native folk ballads of great responsibility. „Demetra’s Passions” is a mythological tale with a very good translation that entails much interference with the Romanian folklore: it blends the central legend with more mythological legends and makes them harmoniously merge with mioritic myth; the Greek-Roman myth philosophy is converted to Romanian beliefs of life and death, about the course of time, which a mother's pain can stop it. Odobescu made the Greco-Roman mythological tale „Romanian” by locating events in a Carpathian - Pontic nature, giving Demetra our pastoral tradition, lending her the oral peasant language. |
| Key words: | oral language, peasant language, Odobescu, Demetra, mythological tale |
| Language: | English |
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