Scriitorul Romulus Rusan, călător prin labirintul mediteraneean: demitizare și remitizare

Mythology represents a complex heritage that has underpinned the collective cultural imaginary since antiquity, identifiable in all art forms. Cultural travelers will consciously or unconsciously exploit this cultural heritage in an inevitable confrontation of places steeped in history and mythical history with the reality discovered on the ground. The myth of the labyrinth is transfigured in travel memoirs in the works of writers such as Romulus Rusan - A Journey to the Inner Sea, Zoe Dumitrescu-Bușulenga - Humanistic Periplu, Octavian Paler - Caminante. Through comparative analysis and by referring to the history of religions, the aim of the analysis is to decode the meanings of the journey, theme and pretext of the writers of the second half of the 20th century, in order to identify the reflections of creative spirits in confrontation with mythologically consecrated spaces. The permanent oscillation between demythologizing and remythologizing in the lands of Greek, Islamic and Egyptian civilizations is a natural process for the writers Ana Blandiana and Romulus Rusan, in the trilogy A Journey to the Inner Sea, bearers of a light universe, passionate about myths, deities and legends.