Vintilă Horia

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Vintilă Horia (Romanian pronunciation: [vinˈtilə ˈhori.a]; December 18, 1915 – April 4, 1992) was a Romanian writer, winner of the Prix Goncourt. His best known novel is God Was Born in Exile (1960).

Life and career

Horia was born in

Sfarmă Piatră journal.[1] He contributed to Gândirea and Porunca Vremii articles praising the Italian fascism of Benito Mussolini (Miracolul fascist — "The Fascist Miracle"),[2] as well as pieces attacking authors whom the traditionalist group viewed as decadent (notably, Tudor Arghezi and Eugen Lovinescu).[3]

After Crainic took over as Minister of Propaganda in King Carol II's authoritarian government, he appointed Horia as member of the diplomatic mission to Rome.[4] According to his own account, Horia shared Crainic's rejection of the Iron Guard, and, after Carol was ousted by the latter's National Legionary State government, he was recalled from office.[4] He later left for Vienna.

With Romania's siding with the

Romania during World War II), Horia was taken prisoner by the Nazi authorities, and interned in the concentration camps at Karpacz and Maria Pfarr. He was liberated a year later by the British Army
.

Deciding not to return to an increasingly Soviet Union-dominated Romania, Vintilă Horia lived in Italy (where he became good friends with Giovanni Papini).

In 1946, following a trial in absentia during the

Universidad de Buenos Aires; after March 1953, he lived in Spain
, employed as a researcher in the Italic Studies field.

He won the

slander aimed at Horia by the communist regime,[6] with the purpose of blackmailing him into issuing positive remarks about the regime.[5] His book notably attracted Jean-Paul Sartre's criticism.[7]

Other prizes received by Vintilă Horia include Medalla de Oro de Il Conciliatore, Milano (1961); Bravo para los hombres que unem en la verdad, Madrid (1972); and the Dante Alighieri Prize, Florence (1981).

He died in Collado Villalba, a municipality of Madrid, and was buried in the Madrid Civil Cemetery.

The centenary of Vintilă Horia was celebrated at the University of Alcalá (a Spanish university in Alcalá de Henares) and in several towns in Romania.

Literary works

Novels

  • Acolo și stelele ard, Ed. Gorjan, București, 1942.
  • Dieu est né en exil, Fayard, Paris, 1960.
  • Le Chevalier de la Résignation, Fayard, Paris, 1961.
  • Les Impossibles, Fayard, Paris, 1962.
  • La septième lettre. Le roman de Platon, Plon, Paris, 1964.
  • Une femme pour l’Apocalypse, Éditions Julliard, Paris, 1968.
  • El hombre de las nieblas, Plaza y Janés, Barcelona, 1970.
  • El viaje a San Marcos, Magisterio Español, Madrid, 1972.
  • Marta, o, La segunda guerra. Barcelona: Plaza & Janés. 1982.
    OCLC 8810329
    .
  • Persécutez Boèce. Lausanne: L'Âge d'Homme. 1987.
    OCLC 1277250548
    .
  • Un sepulcro en el cielo. Barcelona: Planeta. 1987.
    OCLC 16074565
    .
  • Les clefs du crépuscule. Lausanne: L'Âge d'Homme. 1990.
    OCLC 26151582
    .
  • Mai sus de miazănoapte. București:
    OCLC 431782399
    .

Short stories

  • El despertar de la sombra, Editora Nacional, Madrid, 1967.
  • Informe último sobre el Reino H, Plaza y Janés, Barcelona, 1981.
  • Moartea morții mele, Ed. Dacia, Cluj-Napoca, 1999.
  • El fin del exilio. Cuentos de juventud, Criterio Libros, Madrid, 2002.

Memoirs

  • Journal d’un paysan du Danube, Table Ronde, Paris, 1966.
  • Memoriile unui fost săgetător, Ed. Vremea, București, 2015.

Essays

  • Presencia del mito, Escelicer, Madrid, 1956.
  • Poesía y libertad, Madrid, Ateneo, 1959.
  • La rebeldia de los escritores soviéticos, Rialp, Madrid, 1960.
  • Quaderno italiano, Pisa, 1962.
  • Giovanni Papini, Wesmael-Charlier, Paris, 1963.
  • Juan Dacio, Diccionario de los Papas. Prefacio de Vintila Horia. Editorial Destino, Barcelona 1963. (Juan Dacio is the pseudonym of Vintila Horia.)
  • Platon, personaje de novela, Ateneo, Madrid, 1964.
  • España y otros mundos, Plaza y Janés, Barcelona, 1970.
  • Viaje a los Centros de la Tierra, Plaza y Janés, Barcelona, 1971.
  • Pepi Sánchez, Prensa Española, Madrid, 1972.
  • Mester de novelista, Prensa Española, Madrid, 1972.
  • Encuesta detrás de lo visible, Plaza y Janés, Barcelona,1975.
  • Introducción a la literatura del siglo XX. (Ensayo de epistemología literaria), Gredos, Madrid, 1976.
  • Consideraciones sobre un mundo peor, Plaza y Janés, Madrid, 1978.
  • Literatura y disidencia, Ed. Rioduero, Madrid, 1980.
  • Los derechos humanos y la novela del siglo XX, Magisterio Español, Madrid, 1981.
  • Mai bine mort decât comunist, Phoenix, București, 1990.
  • Dicționarul Papilor, Editura Saeculum I.O., 1999.

Poetry

  • Procesiuni, Ed. Pavel Suru, București, 1936.
  • Cetatea cu duhuri, Ed. Pavel Suru, București, 1939.
  • Cartea omului singur, Ed. Pavel Suru, București, 1941.
  • A murit un Sfânt, Valle Hermoso (Argentina), 1952.
  • Poesia romaneasca noua. Antologie, Colecția “Meșterul Manole”, Salamanca, 1956.
  • Jurnal de copilărie, Fundația Regală Universitară Carol I, Paris, 1958.
  • Viitor petrecut, Salamanca, 1976.

Books and PhD Theses consecrated to Vintilă Horia

Books

PhD Theses

  • Monica Nedelcu, La obra literaria de Vintila Horia. El espacio del exilio en cuatro novelas francesas (L’œuvre littéraire de Vintila Horia. L’espace de l’exil dans quatre romans français), Complutense University of Madrid, Colección Tesis Doctorales, 1989.
  • Claudia Drăgănoiu, La prose littéraire d’exil : Vintilă Horia, Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu et L. M. Arcade (Proză literară de exil: Vintilă Horia, Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu și L. M. Arcade), Strasbourg, Faculté des Lettres, University of Strasbourg, 2011.
  • Manuela Alexe, Représentations de l’espace dans la prose de Vintilă Horia (Reprezentări ale spațiului în proza lui Vintilă Horia), Școala doctorală de studii literare și culturale, University of Bucharest, 2012.
  • Renata-Simona Georgescu, L’image de la Roumanie chez Vintilă Horia, Petru Dumitriu et Paul Goma, Facultatea de Litere, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, 2013.
  • Alina Elena Costin, Vintilă Horia: Exil et création, Facultatea de Litere, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iași, 2013.
  • Sonia Elvireanu, Fața întunecată a lui Ianus – Vintilă Horia, Dumitru Țepeneag, Norman Manea, Gabriel Pleșa, Facultatea de Istorie și Filologie,
    1 Decembrie 1918 University, Alba Iulia
    , 2013.

Notes

  1. ^ Ornea, p.116, 245
  2. ^ Ornea, p.433
  3. ^ Ornea, p.447-448, 457-458
  4. ^ a b Rotaru
  5. ^ a b Wagner
  6. ^ Paskievici; Wagner
  7. ^ Pârvan-Jenaru, Dana (January 2009). "Vintilă Horia între 'dacomanie' și Goncourt". Observator Cultural (in Romanian). Retrieved August 29, 2014.

References

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