Ecuația poetică sau despre poetizatul creației lui Valeriu Matei [Articol]

Abstract

Starting from the reality-language-poetry relationship, conceptually drawn through the comparative-critical valorisation of several reference contributions in the field – Paz, Heisenberg, Pessoa, Coşeriu and Morin – my conference aims at the mechanisms of establishing meaning in the poetic creation of Valeriu Matei. The finality of this process – which W. Benjamin calls poetized (das Gedichtetete), and Ștefan Aug. Doinaş “poetic truth” – is the dynamic unity of the intuitive-sensitive order with the intellective order. The synthetic analysis of the volume Ecuațiile disperării/Equations of Despair (2015), sprinkled with nuclei of applied hermeneutics, highlights that Valeriu Matei makes “the transition from the functional unity of life to the functional unity of the poem” through a double approach: the transfiguration of the times of history and the creation of mundus imaginalis. Thus, the poet re-knots both with the genuine onto-cognitive (orphic) valence of the word, and with what lies beyond the image and the word: the ineffable “last core”. Putting into the equation the revolution and revelation, i.e. the anatomy of reality and the metaphysics of the real – the real understood, in Heisenberg’s footsteps, as the indexable area of reality – Valeriu Matei is par excellence a poet of ontical plenitude. Therefore, his poetic equations, crystallized both in aqaforte or in sfumatto at the textual level, acquire the aura of the theorem. Or, etymologically, the theorem (gr. θεωρείν) refers to contemplation: an active contemplation (thinking-enérgeia) of reality in all its abysmal complexity that surrounds the seen face and the unseen face of life, the manifest face and the hidden face of dea¬th. A metaphysical echo of this complexity, Valeriu Matei’s poetry transcends both his glod and his despairs.