IMAGINEA INSTITUȚIEI REGALE A ROMÂNIEI ÎN CULTURA POPULARĂ A BASARABENILOR

Abstract

In this article we have tried too show, starting from a corpus of literary texts, what meant, how he was perceived, imagined and especially how King Mihai was told in stories, implicitly royalty, by the Bessarabians after a period of a few decades of interdictions on the subject. More exactly, we set out to follow the representation of King Mihai in the literature which was produced by the ones that nowadays live in the geographical range which was once the Bessarabia province of the Romanian Kingdom. We are using the notion of "literature" in its larger sense, including the entire variation from the popular culture creations (the folk texts which appeared in the age of King Mihai, recited even today by the seniors, the evocations of the eyewitnesses), to the cultured literature written recently (memos, journals, novels). We have accompanied the commentaries of the texts with descriptions of the historic context which caused those creations.