The Reception of Mihai Eminescu’s Literary Work and Mythicizing Reflexes

The present article discusses the problem of receiving Mihai Eminescu's literary work on two basic coordinates: exegetical, having as a benchmark the aesthetic value of the poet's work, and mentalistic, focused on the tragic biography of the author, correlated with the image of the genius creator, who gave birth to the Eminescu Myth. The evolution of the Eminescu Myth was investigated, from the status of a community myth, configured in the era of the poet's affirmation (the last decades of the 19th century), to that of a cultural myth, the mutation being determined by a complex of social and cultural factors that reveal the tendency of self-identification of our nation through/in Eminescu. The subsequent evolution of the Eminescu Myth took place along identity, paradigmatic, axiological and ideological lines, periodically being situated between an abstract mythification and an aggressive demythization, which indicates the axiological mutations in the cultural field.