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Download or read book Existentialism written by Sorin Cerin and published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL CRITICISM AT SORIN CERIN CRITICICISM ABOUT PHILOSOPHICAL POEMS PhD Professor Ștefan Borbély, emphasizes in the Romanian magazine Contemporanul (Contemporary), no. 10, October 2020, on page 5, under the title Gnoses of Sorin Cerin, that: The multitude of phrases written in capital letters (Nobody's World; The Deep Trace of Pain; The Darkness of Loneliness; The Labyrinth of the Absurd, etc.) indicate the existence of a precise conceptual system within the religious-philosophical poetry of Sorin Cerin, which obviously draws its sap from an ethos, of Christian-Gnostic essence, with the remark that, the canonical protagonists of classical Christianity (Jesus, Mary, the Devil, etc.) do not appear in the soteriological discourse of the volume, although the spiritual finality of the approach is beyond any doubt, because the poet constantly invokes, as the final target of his aspiration, Love, the Eye of Dream, of the Perfection or the Path to Absolute, of the Future. The dichotomous regime of the keywords of the volume is also of Christian origin, because within them the Absolute and the Absurd face, as in Manichaeism, for example, the fate of the world is decided by the battle between the Being of the Light and the Prince of the Darkness. I have deliberately mentioned Manichaeism as a possible source of inspiration for the cosmology created by Sorin Cerin, because, like the ancient apocalypse (that is, of the texts-revelation), the poet opposes the dispersion induced by materiality by building his own mythology, very carefully conceptualized. This is what the great masters of early Christianity did, taking over a tradition that came from pre-Christian times, when, caught in the illusions of the versatile, metamorphic worlds (The Prince of Darkness in Manichaeism is also a metamorphic demiurge, able to give Matter the most attractive forms, not to mention the Maya to the Hindus), the scholar built an independent autarchic universe (or myth), which being of spiritual (crystalline) origin, offered him the "temple" necessary for the soteriological exercise. Carefully, then, at every detail of this "temple" (which could be a bamboo grove, a monastery in newer times or even a Book), the scholar purified himself with each pebble he placed on the wall of his edifice, finally covering himself with it as if he were doing it with a halo of light. Sorin Cerin's poetry contributes, through each new verse, through each new poem or collection, to the construction of such an autarchic spiritual system. Therefore, the poet's terminology has a precise intrinsic logic: when he says that any Cathedral of the Absurd is built with matter taken from death, when he writes about the Subconscious Stranger or the Frozen Words floating around us like thorns of ice, the meaning of these phrases must be sought within the mythographic system created by the poet, and not interpreted by extrapolation. Let us try, therefore, to decrypt the symbolic and narrative structure of this myth, in order to understand its meaning. The universe that the poet evokes in his verses is one of the endings of cosmic cycle, being, therefore, one of eschatological origin. There are, in it, "cemeteries of words ," "ruined cathedrals," cluttered dawns, which "crumble," or "broken windows of Heaven," in which "it rains with sharp shards, of moments." We will not find anywhere in the perimeter of this universe, which seems inspired by the ruins suspended in ether, of the Piranesi, no space of compensation or refuge, the ruin and the dispersion being ubiquitous. Thus, the black, hopeless geography of the volume suggests bringing the faith into an extreme state, of maceration (Thomas d'Aquino's acedia, also interpreted as a torpor), a stage of annulment of being, from which start, further, two alternative paths: that of renunciation and death, respectively that of courage and hope, the purpose of extreme dispersion being to suggest that even in the most prejudicial situations, the life of faith has sufficient inner resources for ascension and "rebirth," because no matter how opaque the world around us would be, there are still, in its deep texture, enough "seeds of love", which to we gather them to build a salvation. Sorin Cerin's poetry appears to us, therefore, as one marked by a paradoxical spiritualist optimism, functioning with the logic of an inverted world. The poet constructs, with fervor and syntactic skill, an anti-world (the world of "cemeteries of words", of frozen meanings, the world of "sharp shards" and the Absurd), which, in the end, is meant to test his faith and to turn him to the redemptive horizon of the Absolute. In quantitative terms, the words and images of the volume belong mainly to the dispersed world, to "loss, cold and indifferent forgetfulness", to the Absurd, that is, to an eschatological climate, which the Faith has the call to transcend and correct. The poet goes, however, even further, proposing a cosmology, of the dualistic type, from the category of those used in Gnosis. Let's try to understand it, starting from the poem in the volume, entitled Where we will be forced to stay: We embarked, on the ship of the Vanity, with the name of Happiness, without we knowing, that the ports in which will dock, are those of the Pain and Absurd, followed in the end, by the one called, Death, where we will be forced to stay, forever, separated from the identity of Love, what will be stolen from us, by another Destiny, what will no longer belong to us, for to be carried in the distances, of the Heart of Fire, of the Eternity of the Moment, given somewhere sometime, by your Glances, now lost, among the Flowers of Tears, of the Memories. It is not the only place where Sorin Cerin talks about an aboulic, deceptive destiny, in which humanity was "closed", cloistered against its will. In this case, the "ship of vanity" docks in ports with exclusively negative connotations, but it is not at all certain that the passengers wanted such a "cruise", their destiny carrying them adrift, against their own will, for superior reasons, which they cannot control. In another poem in the volume there is a "God of No One", who made the world (or at least part of it) "without understanding" that it must be composed (and) of love. This "careless" demiurge has operated, from the very beginning on a negative axiological selection, stopping people from reaching the values of the Good directly or hiding the positive ones. The axial term of the whole complex is the Subconscious Stranger, "which - the poet writes - we have been forbidden to know". Consequently, mankind let itself caught in a premeditated cosmic "mistake," which hindered its path to fulfillment, that is, to Love. The Subconscious Stranger appears in several of Sorin Cerin's poems, he having the force of an obsession, with recuperative value. Living in the torn, dispersed universe of "absurd" materiality, the poet does nothing but move away from the Subconscious Stranger, salvation demanding, on the contrary, a path in the opposite direction, towards the recovery of the Subconscious and its putting in harmony with the Absolute. The precondition of "return" (an essential term for Gnosis) represents it, the internalization of Love: the sharing, from its substance, the preparation of transfiguration. Thus, having all the constitutive elements of the poet's personal poetic mythology, we can only reconstruct it. The starting point is, as in Gnosis, the existence of a "Foreign God" (called by the poet, the God of No One), who mispronounced, "carelessly" the Words of Genesis, revealing - without wanting, probably - a world unilaterally abstract, "absurd," in which the human spirit is put to the test. The will does not help them either, as we have seen that it happens with the metaphor of the drifting ship, because the world was created from the beginning wrong, with the normal meanings reversed. The major symbol of the volume expresses, therefore, a metaphysical trap: the human being is caught in an ironic "game", of eschatological type, from which, apparently, he has no way out. But the impasse turns out to be only apparent, because the builder of his own sublime edifice, that is, the poet, has specific, soteriological powers, through which the gate of salvation opens. All these powers are anti-systemic, ie anti-eschatological. Did "God of No One" put wrong words in the world which he created? The poet's purpose is to find the true ones - and to write them, in order to make them accessible and to those around him. Has the world headed, unknowingly, to wandering, dryness, and dispersion ?: the poet's purpose is to find meanings, significations and sources of energy, and to show them and to others, in order to replace the fragmented world with the promise of a beautiful, whole, bright one. Did the forces of matter stand in the way of the Absurd and of opacity? The purpose of the poet - and, implicitly, of man - is to plant Love in souls and to return toward the Absolute. Anyone can operate these essentialized retroversions, because, in the end, poet and man mean, in Sorin Cerin's system of thinking, about the same thing: two qualitatively related hypostases of the religious man, of the One who Believes. PhD Professor Al Cistelecan within the heading Avant la lettre, under the title Between reflection and attitude, appeared in the magazine Familia nr.11-12 November-December 2015, pag.16-18, Al Cistelecan considers about the poetry of meditation, of Sorin Cerin, that: "From what I see, Sorin Cerin is a kind of volcano textually, in continuously, and maximum eruption, with a writing equally frantic, as and, of convictions. In poetry,relies on gusts reflexive and on the sapiential enthusiasm, cultivating, how says alone in the subtitle of the Non-sense of the Existence, from here the poems "of meditation".One approach among all risky - not of today, yesterday, but from always - because he tend to mix where not even is, the work of poetry, making a kind of philosophizing versified, and willy-nilly, all kinds of punishments and morality. Not anymore is case to remind ourselves of the words said by Maiorescu, to Panait Cerna, about "philosophical poetry," because the poet, them knows, and, he very well, and precisely that wants to face: the risk of to work only in idea, and, of to subordinate the imaginative, to the conceptual.Truth be told, it's not for Sorin Cerin, no danger in this sense, for he is in fact a passional, and never reach the serenity and tranquility Apolline of the thought, on the contrary, recites with pathos rather from within a trauma which he tries to a exorcise, and to sublimates, into radical than from inside any peace of thought or a reflexive harmonies.Even what sounds like an idea nude, transcribed often aphoristic, is actually a burst of attitude, a transcript of emotion - not with coldness, but rather with heat (was also remarked, moreover, manner more prophetic of the enunciations).But, how the method, of, the taking off, lyrical, consists in a kind of elevation of everything that comes, up to the dignity of articulating their reflexive (from where the listing, any references to immediately, whether biographical or more than that), the poems by Cerin, undertake steep in the equations big existential and definitive, and they not lose time in, domestic confessions. They attack the Principle of reality, not its accidents. Thus, everything is raised to a dignity problematic, if no and of other nature, and prepared for a processing, densified. Risks of the formula, arise fatal, and here, because is seen immediately the mechanism of to promote the reality to dignity of the lyrism.One of the mechanisms comes from expressionist heritage (without that Sorin Cerin to have something else in common with the expressionists), of the capitalized letter, through which establishes suddenly and unpredictably, or humility radicalized , or panic in front of majesty of the word.Usually the uppercase, baptizes the stratum "conceptual" (even if some concepts are metaphors), signaling the problematic alert.It is true, Sorin Cerin makes excess and wastage, of the uppercase, such that, from a while, they do not more create, any panic, no godliness, because abundance them calms effects of this kind, and spoil them into a sort of grandiloquence.The other mechanism of the elevation in dignity rely on a certain - perhaps assumed, perhaps premeditated - pretentious discourse, on a thickening lexical, and on a deep and serious declamation.It is insinuated - of lest, even establishes - and here is an obvious procedure of imaginative recipe, redundant over tolerant. How is and normal - even inevitable - in a lyrical of reflection what wants to coagulate around certain cores conceptual, the modality immediate of awareness of these nodes conceptual, consists in materializing the abstractions, making them sensual is just their way of to do epiphany lyrical.But at, Sorin Cerin, imaginative mechanics is based on a simple use of the genitive, which materialize the abstractions, (from where endless pictures like "the thorns of the Truth," "chimney sweeps of the Fulfillments," " the brushes of Deceptions" etc. etc.), under, which most often is a button of personification.On the scale of decantation in metaphors we stand, thus, only on the first steps, what produces simultaneously, an effect of candor imaginative (or discoursive), but and one of uniformity.Probable but that this confidence in the primary processes is due to the stake on decanting of the thought, stake which let, in subsidiary, the imaginative action (and on the one symbolized more so) as such. But not how many or what ideas roam, through Sorin Cerin's poems are, however the most relevant, thing (the idea, generally, but and in this particular case, has a degree of indifference, to lyricism).On the contrary, in way somewhat paradoxically, decisive, not only defining, it's the attitude in which they gather, the affect in which coagulates.Beneath the appearance of a speech projected on "thought", Sorin Cerin promotes, in fact, an lyricism (about put to dry) of, emotions existential (not of intimate emotions). The reflexivity of the poems is not, from this perspective, than a kind of penitential attitude, an expression of hierarchies, of violent emotions. Passionate layer is, in reality, the one that shake, and he sees himself in almost all its components, from the ones of blaming, to the ones of piety, or tenderness sublimated (or, on the contrary, becoming sentimentalist again). The poet is, in substance, an exasperated of state of the world and the human condition and starting from here, makes exercises with sarcasm (cruel, at least, as, gush), on account of "consumer society" or on that of the vanity of "Illusions of the Existence". It's a fever of a figures of style that contains a curse, which gives impetus to the lyrics, but which especially highlights discoursive, the exasperation in front of this general degradation. So general, that she comprised and transcendental, for Sorin Cerin is more than irritated by the instrumentalization of the God (and, of the faith) in the world today. Irritation in front of corruption the sacred, reaches climax, in lyrics of maximum, nerve blasphemous ("Wickedness of Devil is called Evil, / while of the God, Good. ", but and others, no less provocative and" infamous " at the address the Godhead); but this does not happen, than because of the intensity and purity of his own faith (Stefan Borbely highlighted the energy of fervor from the poetry of Cerin), from a kind of devotional absolutism. For that not the lyrics, of challenge and blame, do, actually Cerin, on the contrary: lyrics of devotion desperate and passionate, through which him seeks "on Our True God / so different from the one of cathedrals of knee scratched / at the cold walls and inert of the greed of the Illusion of Life ". It is the devotional fever from on, the reverse, of imprecations and sarcasm, but precisely she is the one that contaminates all the poems. From a layer of ideals, squashed, comes out, with verve passionate, the attitudes, of Cerin, attitudes eruptive, no matter how, they would be encoded in a lyrical of reflections. " PhD Professor Elvira Sorohan - An existentialist poet of the 21st Century To fully understand the literary chronicle written by Elvira Sorohan in Convorbiri Literare, “Literary Conversations”, which refers to an article written by Magda Cârneci regarding Trans-poetry, and published in România literară, “Romania literary”, where specified what namely is poetry genuine, brilliant, the great poetry, on which a envies the poets of the last century, Elvira Sorohan, specifies in the chronicle dedicated to the poetry of Cerin, from, Convorbiri Literare, “Literary Conversations”, number 9 (237), pages 25-28, 2015 under the title An existentialist poet of the 21st century, that:Without understanding what is "trans-poetry", which probably is not more poetry, invoking a term coined by Magda Cârneci, I more read, however, poetry today and now I'm trying to say something about one certain.Dissatisfied of "insufficiency of contemporary poetry" in the same article from in România literară, "Literary Romania", reasonably poetess accuses in block, how, that what "delivers" now the creators of poetry, are not than notations of "little feeling", "small despairs" and "small thinking. "Paraphrasing it on Maiorescu, harsh critical of the diminutives cultivated by Alecsandri, you can not say than that poetry resulting from such notation is also low (to the cube, if enumeration stops at three).The cause identified by Magda Cârneci, would be the lack of inspiration, that tension psychical, specific the men of art, an experience spontaneous, what gives birth, uncontrollably, at creation.It is moment inspiring, in the case of poetry, charged of impulses affective, impossible to defeated rationally, an impulse on that it you have or do not it have, and, of, which is responsible the vocation.Simple, this is the problem, you have vocation, you have inspiration. I have not really an opinion formed about poetry of Magda Cârneci, and I can not know, how often inspiration visits her, but if this state is a grace, longer the case to look for recipes for to a induces ?And yet, in the name of the guild, preoccupation the poetess, for the desired state, focuses interrogative: "... the capital question that arises is the following: how do we to have access more often, more controlled and not just by accident, to those states intense, at the despised
Download or read book The Coaxiological Logic written by Sorin Cerin and published by Amazon. This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sorin Cerin (born Sorin Hodorogea) is a Philosopher and Logician, creator of the Philosophical Works of Coaxialism, Essayist and Author of the monumental work entitled Wisdom Collection, considered one of the most prominent thinkers of the world gnomic genre, also a remarkable existentialist Poet of the 21st century and Novelist of Romanian origin (born November 25, 1963, Baia Mare, Romania). Sorin Cerin is an existentialist poet whose existentialist philosophical poems are quoted by specialists alongside philosophers, poets and existentialist authors such as Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre or Kierkegaard but also the author of a new philosophical system called Coaxialism. Sorin Cerin is especially sought after by the general public, among existentialist poets and philosophers, both for his existentialist philosophical poems that focus mainly on Love, Existence, Illusion, the Absurd or Death, and for philosophical aphorisms, structured in several volumes, and previously published in various publishing houses, to be later reunited under the aegis of a single monumental volume, entitled Wisdom Collection.This title first appeared in 2009, which together with the future editions of Sorin Cerin's Wisdom Collections from the following years, brought him fame and international recognition, for which, Sorin Cerin, is considered to be one of the most representative existentialist philosophers and poets, but, also author of wisdom, author of philosophical aphorisms or thinker of the sapiential genre, worldwide. Many philosophical aphorisms from Wisdom Collection, are selected in various publications or prestigious anthologies of the world. Sorin Cerin is a member of the Society of French Poets (Société des Poètes Français) the oldest and most prestigious poetry society in France based in Paris, and also of the Society of Poets and Artists of France. SORIN CERIN - BIBLIOGRAPHY, LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL CRITICISM BIBLIOGRAPHY SORIN CERIN'S WORK UPDATED UP TO 2020 BOOKS OF APHORISMS - SORIN CERIN'S SAPIENTIAL, GNOMICAL WORKS, TOTALING IN 2020, A NUMBER OF 16, 777 APHORISMS STRUCTURALIZED IN A NUMBER OF 22 DIFFERENT VOLUMES PUBLISHED IN VARIOUS PUBLISHING HOUSES EDITIONS. THESE ARE: Ø Culegere de Înțelepciune Sorin Cerin:16.777 Aforisme Filozofice - Opere Complete - Editia 2020, Statele Unite ale Americii 2020. This book appears in English with the title: Sorin Cerin Wisdom Collection: 16.777 Philosophical Aphorisms-Complete Works-2020 Edition the United States of America 2020 Ø The Future of Artificial Intelligence - Philosophical aphorisms, the United States of America 2020 Ø The Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence- Philosophical aphorisms, the United States of America 2020 Ø Iubire și Absurd Statele Unite ale Americii 2019; This book appears in English with the title: Love and Absurd-philosophical aphorisms, contains 449 philosophical aphorisms the United States of America 2020 Ø Impactul Inteligenței Artificiale asupra Omenirii Statele Unite ale Americii 2019; This book appears in English with the title: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Mankind-philosophical aphorisms, contains 445 philosophical aphorisms the United States of America 2019 Ø Credință și Sfințenie la Om și Mașină Statele Unite ale Americii 2019; This book appears in English with the title: Faith and Holiness at Man and Machine-philosophical aphorisms, contains 749 philosophical aphorisms the United States of America 2019 Ø Necunoscutul Absurd, Statele Unite ale Americii 2019; This book appears in English with the title: The Unknown -Absurd-philosophical aphorisms, contains 630 philosophical aphorisms the United States of America 2020 Ø Viitorul Îndepărtat al Omenirii Statele Unite ale Americii 2019; This book appears in English with the title: The Far Future of Mankind-philosophical aphorisms, contains 727 philosophical aphorisms, the United States of America 2019 Ø Destinul Inteligenței Artificiale, Statele Unite ale Americii 2019; This book appears in English with the title: Destiny of the Artificial Intelligence-philosophical aphorisms, contains 505 philosophical aphorisms, the United States of America 2020 Ø Dovada Existenței Lumii de Apoi Statele Unite ale Americii 2019 ; This book appears in English with the title: Proof of the Existence of the Afterlife World -philosophical aphorisms, contains 709 philosophical aphorisms, the United States of America 2019, Ø Culegere de Înţelepciune - Opere Complete de Aforisme - Ediţie de Referinţă, 2019 conţine un număr de 12 513 de aforisme -Statele Unite ale Americii 2019; This book appears in English with the title: Wisdom Collection - Complete Works of Aphorisms - Reference Edition, 2019 , contains 12 513 aphorisms- the United States of America 2019 which had in addition the volume of philosophical aphorisms Judges : Ø Judecători , Statele Unite ale Americii 2019. This book appears in English with the title: Judges –contains 1027 philosophical aphorisms, the United States of America 2019 In 2014, the book entitled "Culegere de înțelepciune- Opere complete de aforisme, ediție de referință” appeared in the United States in Romanian, in English, with the title Wisdom Collection- Complete Works of Aphorisms, Reference Edition, 11 486 aphorisms. In this Wisdom Collection - Complete Works of Aphorisms - Reference Edition, were all the books listed below and which appeared over time at other publishers, in Romania and the United States, whose ISBNs were as follows: Ø Dumnezeu și Destin 2014 , 530 aphorisms, appears in the Paco publishing house, Bucharest, Romania, in the first edition and in the second edition in the United States of America. It also appears in English in the United States of America, with the title of God and Destiny-aphorisms. Ø Rătăcire 2013, 515 aphorisms, appears in the Paco publishing house, Bucharest, Romania, in the first edition and in the second edition in the United States of America. It also appears in English in the United States of America, with the title Wandering-aphorisms. Ø Libertate 2013 , 863 aphorisms, appears in the Paco publishing house, Bucharest, Romania,in the first edition and in the second edition in the United States of America. It also appears in English in the United States of America, with the title Freedom-aphorisms. Ø In 2013, the book entitled Cugetări esențiale (Essential thinking) is published by Paco publishing house in Bucharest which includes volumes of aphorisms, Iluminare ( Illumination) , Paradisul și Infernul (Paradise and Inferno), Păcatul (The Sin), Deșertăciune (Vanity) and Contemplare (Contemplation). Before being published in Cugetări esențiale, each volume of this book appears separately in the United States of America, in both Romanian and English, with the following ISBNs: Ø In the Romanian language it appears under the title Contemplare , 393 aphorisms. It also appears in English with the title of Contemplation. Ø In the Romanian language it appears under the title Deşertăciune 2011, 431 aphorisms. It also appears in English with the title of Vanity: aphorisms. Ø In the Romanian language it appears under the title Paradisul şi Infernul 2011, 522 aphorisms. It also appears in English with the title of Paradise and Inferno: aphorisms. Ø In the Romanian language it appears under the title Păcatul, 527 aphorisms. It also appears in English with the title The Sin: aphorisms. Ø In the Romanian language it appears under the title Iluminare, 693 aphorisms. It also appears in English with the title of Illumination: aphorisms. Ø In 2009 it was published by the prestigious Eminescu publishing house, one of the most selective Romanian publishing houses, Culegere de înţelepciune (Wisdom collection), in which for the first time appear the volumes Înțelepciune (The book of Wisdom), Patima ( The book of Passion) and Iluzie și realitate (The book of Illusion and reality), together with those reissued as Nemurire (The book of Immortality), Învață să mori (The book of the dead) and Revelații ( The book of Revelations), volumes published both separately and together in the collection, in online or print English editions in the United States, Wisdom Collection 2009. The three books previously published by other publishers and published in the 2009 Culegere de înțelepciune (Wisdom Collection), from the Eminescu Publishing House in Romania are: Ø Revelații, first edition appeared at Paco publishing house, Bucharest, Romania. It also appears in English with the title of The Book of Revelations contains 2509 aphorisms, the United States of America Ø Nemurire, first edition appeared at Paco publishing house, Bucharest, Romania. It also appears in English with the title of The Book of Immortality contains 856 aphorisms Ø Învață să mori, first edition appeared at Paco publishing house, Bucharest, Romania. It also appears in English with the title of The Book of the Dead contains 1219 aphorisms Ø Subsequent to the 2009 edition of the Culegerii de Înțelepciune (Wisdom Collection), have appeared separately in English in the United States and books entitled: Ø The Book of Wisdom (Înțelepciune) contains 1500 aphorisms Ø The Bookk of Passion (Patima) contains 492 aphorisms Ø The Book of Illusion and Reality (Iluzie și Realitate) contains 413 aphorisms BOOKS OF PHILOSOPHICAL STUDIES Ø Sorin Cerin: Operele Filozofice ale Coaxialismului - Editia 2020, Statele Unite ale Americii 2020. This book appears in English with the title: Sorin Cerin:The Philosophical Works of the Coaxialism - 2020 Reference Edition, the United States of America 2020 Ø Coaxialismul -Editie completa de referinta, Prima editie Romania 2007,a doua, Statele Unite ale Americii 2010 ( Complete reference edition, First edition Romania 2007, second, the United States of America 2010) ; This book appears in English with the title: The Coaxialism- Complete reference edition, the United States of America 2011 Ø Moarte, neant, aneant, viaţă şi Bilderberg Group, Prima editie Romania 2007,a doua, Statele Unite ale Americii 2010; Death, Nothingness, Un-nothingness, Life and Bilderberg Group-, First edition Romania 2007, second, the United States of America 2010. This book appears in English with the title: Value and Hierarchy of the Human Being, the United States of America,2020 Ø Logica coaxiologică, Prima editie, Romania 2007, a doua, Statele Unite ale Americii 2014; - The Coaxiological logic-, First edition, Romania 2007, second, the United States 2014. This book appears in English with the title: The Coaxiological Logic, the United States of America 2020 Ø Starea de concepţiune în fenomenologia coaxiologică, Prima editie Romania 2007,a doua, Statele Unite ale Americii 2014; -The state of conception in coaxiological phenomenology -, First edition Romania 2007, second, the United States of America, 2014. This book appears in English with the title: The Creation, the United States of America 2020 Ø Antichrist, fiinţă şi iubire, Prima editie Romania 2007 a doua, Statele Unite ale Americii 2012 ( First edition Romania 2007 second United States of America 2012); This book appears in English with the title: The Evil- the United States of America 2014 Ø Iubire, Statele Unite ale Americii 2012 (the United States of America 2012); - Amour- the United States of America 2010; This book appears in English with the title: Love- the United States of America 2012 BOOKS OF PHILOSOPHICAL POEMS Ø In Memoriam- Poezii Filozofice de Dragoste,Statele Unite ale Americii 2020,( In Memoriam – Philosophical Poems of Love, the United States of America, 2020) Ø O Moarte a Iubirii - Poezii Filozofice de Dragoste, Statele Unite ale Americii 2020, (A Death of Love - Philosophical Poems of Love, the United States of America 2020) Ø De ce Plâng Îngerii Iubirii?- Poezii Filozofice de Dragoste, Statele Unite ale Americii 2020, • Why do the Angels of Love Cry? - Philosophical Love Poems, the United States of America 2020 Ø Inimi de Cenușă – Poezii Filozofice de Dragoste Statele Unite ale Americii 2019; (Ash Hearts - Philosophical Poems of Love, the United States of America 2019) Ø Fără tine Iubire - Poezii filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2019 (Without You Love - Philosophical Poems, the United States of America 2019) Ø Am crezut în Nemărginirea Iubirii - Poezii filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2019 ; I believed in the Eternity of Love - Philosophical poems, the United States of America 2019 Ø Te-am iubit - Poezii filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2019;- I loved you - Philosophical poems, the United States of America 2019 Ø Să dansăm Iubire - Poezii filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2019 (Let's Dance Love - Philosophical Poems, the United States of America 2019) Ø Sfințenia Iubirii - Poezii filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2019 (The holiness of Love - Philosophical Poems, the United States of America 2019 Ø Steaua Nemuririi - Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018; - The Star of Immortality-Philosophical poems, the United States of America 2018 Ø Iluzia Mântuirii- Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018 (The Illusion of Salvation - Philosophical Poems, the United States of America 2018) Ø Întâmplare Neîntâmplătoare - Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018 (Non-incidentally Happening - Philosophical poems, the United States of America 2018) Ø Singurătatea Nemuririi - Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018 (The Loneliness of Immortality - Philosophical Poems, the United States of America 2018) Ø Drame de Companie - Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018 (Company Dramas - Philosophical Poems, the United States of America 2018) Ø Calea spre Absolut - Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018 ( The Path to the Absolute - Philosophical Poems, the United States of America 2018) Ø Dumnezeul meu - Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018 (My God - Philosophical Poems, the United States of America 2018) Ø Angoase existentiale- Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018; - Existential Anguishes - Philosophical poems, the United States of America 2018 Ø Mai Singur - Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018 ;- More lonely - Philosophical poems, the United States of America 2019 Ø Pe Umerii Lacrimii Unui Timp - Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018 (On the Shoulders of the Tears of a Time - Philosophical Poems, the United States of America 2018) Ø În sălbăticia Sângelui - Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018 (In the Wild of Blood - Philosophical Poems, the United States of America 2018) Ø Început și Sfârșit - Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018 (Beginning and End - Philosophical Poems, the United States of America 2018) Ø Marea Iluzie a Spargerii Totului Primordial - Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018 (The Great Illusion of Breaking of the Primordial Everything - Philosophical Poems, the United States of America 2018) Ø Transcendental - Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018 (Transcendental - Philosophical poems, the United States of America 2018) Ø Amintirile Viitorului - Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018 (Memories of the Future - Philosophical Poems, the United States of America 2018) Ø Înțelesul Iubirii –Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018 (The Meaning of Love - Philosophical Poems, the United States of America 2018) Ø Tot ce a rămas din noi este Iubire -Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018 (All that is left of us is Love - Philosophical Poems, the United States of America 2018) Ø Creația Iubirii -Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018 (Creation of Love - Philosophical poems, the United States of America 2018) Ø Zâmbetul este floarea Sufletului -Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018 (Smile is the flower of the Soul - Philosophical Poems, the United States of America 2018) Ø Omul este o șoaptă mincinoasă a Creației- Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018 (Man is a lying whisper of Creation - Philosophical Poems, the United States of America 2018) Ø Condiția Umană- Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018 (Human Condition - Philosophical Poems, the United States of America 2018) Ø Agonia- Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018 (The Agony - Philosophical Poems, the United States of America 2018) Ø Iubire și Sacrificiu- Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018 (Love and Sacrifice - Philosophical Poems, the United States of America 2018) Ø Disperare- Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018 (Despair - Philosophical Poems, the United States of America 2018) Ø Statuile Vivante ale Absurdului- Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018;- The Living Statues of the Absurd - Philosophical poems, the United States of America 2018 Ø Arta Absurdului Statuilor Vivante- Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018 (The art of the Absurd of the Living Statues - Philosophical Poems, the United States of America 2018) Ø Absurd - Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018 (Absurd - Philosophical Poems, the United States of America 2018) Ø Greața și Absurdul - Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018 (The Nausea and Absurd - Philosophical Poems, the United States of America 2018) Ø Alienarea Absurdului- Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018 (Alienation of the Absurd - Philosophical Poems, United States of America 2018) Ø Depresiile Absurdului Carismatic – Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018 (Depression of Charismatic Absurd - Philosophical Poems, the United States of America 2018) Ø Zilele fără adăpost ale Absurdului - Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018 (The Homeless Days of the Absurd - Philosophical Poems, the United States of America 2018) Ø Stelele Căzătoare ale Durerii Lumii de Apoi - Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018 (The Falling Stars of the Pain of the Afterlife World - Philosophical Poems, the United States of America 2018) Ø Cunoașterea este adevărata Imagine a Morții - Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018 (Knowledge is the True Image of Death - Philosophical Poems, the United States of America 2018) Ø Teatrul Absurd- Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018; The Absurd Theater- Philosophical poems, the United States of America 2018 Ø Vise - Poezii filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018 ; Dreams- Philosophical poems, the United States of America 2018 Ø În Inima ta de Jar Iubire- Poezii filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018 ( In Your Heart of Fire Love - Philosophical Poems, the United States of America 2018) Ø Nemurirea Iubirii - Poezii filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018, The Immortality of Love- Philosophical poems, the United States of America 2019 Ø Timpul pierdut- Poezii filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2018, The Lost Time -Philosophical poems, the United States of America 2019 Ø Iluzia Existenței - Poeme Filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2017; The Illusion of Existence: Philosophical poems, the United States of America 2017 Ø Existențialism - Poeme Filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2017;- Existentialism: Philosophical poems, the United States of America 2017 Ø Ființă și Neființă - Poeme Filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2017; Being and Nonbeing: Philosophical poems, the United States of America 2017 Ø Oglinzile Paralele ale Genezei - Poeme Filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2017;- The Parallel Mirrors of the Genesis: Philosophical poems, the United States of America 2017 Ø Existența si Timp - Poeme Filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2017;- Existence and Time: Philosophical poems, the United States of America 2017 Ø Obiecte de Cult - Poeme Filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2017;- Objects of Worship: Philosophical poems, the United States of America 2017 Ø Copacul Cunoașterii - Poeme Filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2017;- The Tree of The Knowledge: Philosophical poems, the United States of America 2017 Ø Iluzia Amintirii- Poeme Filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2017;- The Illusion of Memory: Philosophical poems, the United States of America 2017 Ø Iluzia Morții - Poeme Filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2017;- The Illusion of Death: Philosophical poems, the United States of America 2017 Ø Eternitate - Poeme Filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2017;- Eternity- Philosophical poems, the United States of America 2017 Ø Filosofia Iubirii - Dragoste și Destin - Poeme Filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2017;- The Philosophy of Love - Love and Destiny- Philosophical poems, the United States of America 2017 Ø Filosofia Iubirii - Verighetele Privirilor - Poeme Filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2017;- The Philosophy of Love-The Wedding Rings of Glances-Philosophical poems, the United States of America 2017 Ø Filosofia Iubirii - Fructul Oprit - Poeme Filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2017;- The Philosophy of Love - The Forbidden Fruit- Philosophical poems, the United States of America 2017 Ø Filosofia Iubirii - Lacrimi - Poeme Filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2017;- The Philosophy of Love- Tears- Philosophical poems, the United States of America 2017 Ø Străinul Subconștient al Adevărului Absolut - Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2016 (The Subconscious Stranger of Absolute Truth - Philosophical Poems, the United States of America 2016) Ø Paradigma Eternității - Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2016 (Paradigm of Eternity - Philosophical Poems, the United States of America 2016) Ø Marea Contemplare Universală - Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2016 (The Great Universal Contemplation - Philosophical Poems, the United States of America 2016) Ø Bisericile Cuvintelor - Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2016 (The Churches of Words - Philosophical Poems, the United States of America 2016) Ø Trafic de carne vie - Poeme filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2016 (Live meat trafficking - Philosophical poems, the United States of America 2016) Ø Vremurile Cuielor Tulburi - Poeme Filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2016 (The times of the troubled Nails - Philosophical Poems, the United States of America 2016) Ø Divinitate - Poeme Filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2016 (Divinity - Philosophical Poems, the United States of America 2016) Ø La Cabinetul Stomatologic - Poeme Filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2016 ( At the Dental Office - Philosophical Poems, the United States of America 2016) Ø Origami - Poeme Filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2016 (Origami - Philosophical Poems United, the United States of America 2016) Ø Dinainte de Spatiu si Timp - Poeme Filosofice Statele Unite ale Americii 2016 (Before Space and Time - Philosophical Poems, the United States of America 2016) Ø A Fi Poet, editura eLiteratura, București 2015 (To Be Poet, eLiteratura publishing house, Bucharest, Romania 2015) Ø O Clipă de Eternitate, editura eLiteratura, București 2015 (A Moment of Eternity eLiteratura publishing house, Bucharest, Romania 2015) Ø Suntem o Hologramă, editura eLiteratura, București 2015 (We are a Hologram eLiteratura publishing house, Bucharest, Romania 2015) Ø Zile de Carton, editura eLiteratura, București 2015 (Cardboard Days, eLiterature publishing house, Bucharest, Romania 2015) Ø Fericire, editura eLiteratura, București 2015 (Happiness, eLiterature publishing house, Bucharest, Romania 2015) Ø Nonsensul Existenței, editura Paco Romania, a doua editie, Statele Unite ale Americii 2015;- The Nonsense of Existence - Poems of Meditation, the United States of America 2016 Ø Liberul arbitru, Statele Unite ale Americii 2015;- The Free Will - Poems of Meditation, the United States of America 2016 Ø Marile taceri, editura Paco, Romania, a doua editie, Statele Unite ale Americii 2015;- The Great Silences - Poems of Meditation, the United States of America 2016 Ø Ploi de Foc, Statele Unite ale Americii 2015;- Rains of Fire - Poems of Meditation, the United States of America 2016 Ø Moarte, editura Paco, Romania, a doua editie, Statele Unite ale Americii 2015;- Death - Poems of Meditation, the United States of America 2016 Ø Iluzia Vieții, editura Paco, Romania, a doua editie, Statele Unite ale Americii 2015;- The Illusion of Life - Poems of Meditation, the United States of America 2016 Ø Prin cimitirele viselor, editura Paco, Romania, a doua editie, Statele Unite ale Americii 2015;- Through The Cemeteries of The Dreams - Poems of Meditation, the United States of America 2016 Ø Îngeri și Nemurire, editura Paco, Romania, a doua editie, Statele Unite ale Americii 2014;- Angels and Immortality - Poems of Meditation, the United States of America 2017 Ø Politice, editura Paco, Romania, 2013, Statele Unite ale Americii 2013 (Politically, the United States of America 2013) Ø Facerea lumii, editura Paco, Romania, 2013, a doua editie Statele Unite ale Americii 2013;- Making the World- Philosophical poems, the United States of America 2018 Ø Cuvântul Lui Dumnezeu, editura paco, Romania 2013, a doua editie Statele Unite ale Americii 2013 (God's Word, the United States of America 2013) Ø Alegerea Mantuitorului, editura Paco Romania 2013, a doua editie Statele Unite ale Americii 2013 (Election of the Savior, the United States of America 2013) Ø Adresa unei cești de cafea, Editura Paco, Romania, 2013, a doua ediție, Statele Unite Ale Americii, 2013 (Address of a cup of coffee, Paco Publishing House, Romania, 2013, second edition, the United States of America, 2013) Ø Memento Mori, Editura Paco, Romania, 2012, a doua ediție, Statele Unite Ale Americii, 2012 (Memento Mori, Paco Publishing House, Romania, 2012, second edition, the United States of America, 2012) Ø Parfum de eternitate, Editura Paco, Romania, 2012, a doua ediție, Statele Unite Ale Americii, 2012 (Perfume of eternity, Paco Publishing House, Romania, 2012, second edition, the United States of America, 2012) Ø Umbrele Inimilor, Editura Paco, Romania, 2012, a doua ediție, Statele Unite Ale Americii, 2012 (Shadows of the Hearts, Paco Publishing House, Romania, 2012, second edition, the United States of America, 2012) Ø Inimă de piatră amară, Editura Paco, Romania, 2012, a doua ediție, Statele Unite Ale Americii, 2012 (Heart of bitter stone, Paco Publishing House, Romania, 2012, second edition, the United States of America, 2012) Ø Legendele sufletului, Editura Paco, Romania, 2012, a doua ediție, Statele Unite Ale Americii, 2012 (Legends of the soul, Paco Publishing House, Romania, 2012, second edition, the United States of America, 2012) Ø Adevăr, Amintire, Iubire, Editura Paco, Romania, 2012, a doua ediție, Statele Unite Ale Americii, 2012 (Truth, Remembrance, Love, Paco Publishing House, Romania, 2012, second edition, the United States of America, 2012) Ø Eram Marile Noastre Iubiri, Editura Paco, Romania, 2012, a doua ediție, Statele Unite Ale Americii, 2012 (We were our Great Loves, Paco Publishing House, Romania, 2012, second edition, the United States of America, 2012) Ø Suflete pereche, Editura Paco, Romania, 2011, a doua ediție, Statele Unite Ale Americii, 2011 (Soulmates, Paco Publishing House, Romania, 2011, second edition, the United States of America, 2011) Ø Templul inimii, Editura Paco, Romania, 2011, a doua ediție, Statele Unite Ale Americii, 2011 (Temple of the Heart, Paco Publishing House, Romania, 2011, second edition, the United States of America, 2011) Ø Poeme de dragoste, Editura Paco, Romania, 2009, a doua ediție, Statele Unite Ale Americii, 2011 (Love Poems, Paco Publishing House, Romania, 2009, second edition, the United States of America, 2011) NOVELS Ø Destin, Editura Paco, Romania, 2003 (Destiny, Paco Publishing House, Romania, 2003) ; Destiny, the United States of America 2004 Ø Trilogia Destiny cu volumele Psycho, Apocalipsa şi Exodus urmând să apară Lumina Divină doi ani mai târziu ce avea să întregească ciclul Originea lui Dumnezeu 2004- 2006 (Destiny trilogy with volumes Psycho, Apocalypse and Exodus, and The Divine Light which appeared two years later which was to complete the cycle Origin of God 2004-2006) Ø The origin of God apărut în Statele Unite ale Americii cu volumele The Divine Light, Psycho, The Apocalypse şi Exodus2006 (The origin of God appeared in the United States with volumes The Divine Light, Psycho, The Apocalypse and Exodus2006) NONFICTION BOOKS Ø Wikipedia pseudo-enciclopedia minciunii, cenzurii și dezinformării Prima carte critică la adresa wikipediei care dezvăluie abuzurile, minciuna, mistificările din această enciclopedie – Statele Unite ale Americii – 2011 ; Wikipedia: Pseudo-encyclopedia of the lie, censorship and misinformation The first book which criticizes Wikipedia, that reveals the abuses, lies, mystifications in this encyclopedia – the United States of America – 2011 Ø Bible of the Light – the United States of America -2011 Ø Procesul Wikipedia – Drepturile omului, serviciile secrete și justiția din România – Statele Unite ale Americii - 2018 (Wikipedia Process - Human Rights, Secret Services and Justice in Romania - the United States of America - 2018 ) CRITICICISM ABOUT PHILOSOPHICAL POEMS PhD Professor Ștefan Borbély, emphasizes in the Romanian magazine Contemporanul (Contemporary), no. 10, October 2020, on page 5, under the title Gnoses of Sorin Cerin, that: The multitude of phrases written in capital letters (Nobody's World; The Deep Trace of Pain; The Darkness of Loneliness; The Labyrinth of the Absurd, etc.) indicate the existence of a precise conceptual system within the religious-philosophical poetry of Sorin Cerin, which obviously draws its sap from an ethos, of Christian-Gnostic essence, with the remark that, the canonical protagonists of classical Christianity (Jesus, Mary, the Devil, etc.) do not appear in the soteriological discourse of the volume, although the spiritual finality of the approach is beyond any doubt, because the poet constantly invokes, as the final target of his aspiration, Love, the Eye of Dream, of the Perfection or the Path to Absolute, of the Future. The dichotomous regime of the keywords of the volume is also of Christian origin, because within them the Absolute and the Absurd face, as in Manichaeism, for example, the fate of the world is decided by the battle between the Being of the Light and the Prince of the Darkness. I have deliberately mentioned Manichaeism as a possible source of inspiration for the cosmology created by Sorin Cerin, because, like the ancient apocalypse (that is, of the texts-revelation), the poet opposes the dispersion induced by materiality by building his own mythology, very carefully conceptualized. This is what the great masters of early Christianity did, taking over a tradition that came from pre-Christian times, when, caught in the illusions of the versatile, metamorphic worlds (The Prince of Darkness in Manichaeism is also a metamorphic demiurge, able to give Matter the most attractive forms, not to mention the Maya to the Hindus), the scholar built an independent autarchic universe (or myth), which being of spiritual (crystalline) origin, offered him the "temple" necessary for the soteriological exercise. Carefully, then, at every detail of this "temple" (which could be a bamboo grove, a monastery in newer times or even a Book), the scholar purified himself with each pebble he placed on the wall of his edifice, finally covering himself with it as if he were doing it with a halo of light. Sorin Cerin's poetry contributes, through each new verse, through each new poem or collection, to the construction of such an autarchic spiritual system. Therefore, the poet's terminology has a precise intrinsic logic: when he says that any Cathedral of the Absurd is built with matter taken from death, when he writes about the Subconscious Stranger or the Frozen Words floating around us like thorns of ice, the meaning of these phrases must be sought within the mythographic system created by the poet, and not interpreted by extrapolation. Let us try, therefore, to decrypt the symbolic and narrative structure of this myth, in order to understand its meaning. The universe that the poet evokes in his verses is one of the endings of cosmic cycle, being, therefore, one of eschatological origin. There are, in it, "cemeteries of words ," "ruined cathedrals," cluttered dawns, which "crumble," or "broken windows of Heaven," in which "it rains with sharp shards, of moments." We will not find anywhere in the perimeter of this universe, which seems inspired by the ruins suspended in ether, of the Piranesi, no space of compensation or refuge, the ruin and the dispersion being ubiquitous. Thus, the black, hopeless geography of the volume suggests bringing the faith into an extreme state, of maceration (Thomas d'Aquino's acedia, also interpreted as a torpor), a stage of annulment of being, from which start, further, two alternative paths: that of renunciation and death, respectively that of courage and hope, the purpose of extreme dispersion being to suggest that even in the most prejudicial situations, the life of faith has sufficient inner resources for ascension and "rebirth," because no matter how opaque the world around us would be, there are still, in its deep texture, enough "seeds of love", which to we gather them to build a salvation. Sorin Cerin's poetry appears to us, therefore, as one marked by a paradoxical spiritualist optimism, functioning with the logic of an inverted world. The poet constructs, with fervor and syntactic skill, an anti-world (the world of "cemeteries of words", of frozen meanings, the world of "sharp shards" and the Absurd), which, in the end, is meant to test his faith and to turn him to the redemptive horizon of the Absolute. In quantitative terms, the words and images of the volume belong mainly to the dispersed world, to "loss, cold and indifferent forgetfulness", to the Absurd, that is, to an eschatological climate, which the Faith has the call to transcend and correct. The poet goes, however, even further, proposing a cosmology, of the dualistic type, from the category of those used in Gnosis. Let's try to understand it, starting from the poem in the volume, entitled Where we will be forced to stay: We embarked, on the ship of the Vanity, with the name of Happiness, without we knowing, that the ports in which will dock, are those of the Pain and Absurd, followed in the end, by the one called, Death, where we will be forced to stay, forever, separated from the identity of Love, what will be stolen from us, by another Destiny, what will no longer belong to us, for to be carried in the distances, of the Heart of Fire, of the Eternity of the Moment, given somewhere sometime, by your Glances, now lost, among the Flowers of Tears, of the Memories. It is not the only place where Sorin Cerin talks about an aboulic, deceptive destiny, in which humanity was "closed", cloistered against its will. In this case, the "ship of vanity" docks in ports with exclusively negative connotations, but it is not at all certain that the passengers wanted such a "cruise", their destiny carrying them adrift, against their own will, for superior reasons, which they cannot control. In another poem in the volume there is a "God of No One", who made the world (or at least part of it) "without understanding" that it must be composed (and) of love. This "careless" demiurge has operated, from the very beginning on a negative axiological selection, stopping people from reaching the values of the Good directly or hiding the positive ones. The axial term of the whole complex is the Subconscious Stranger, "which - the poet writes - we have been forbidden to know". Consequently, mankind let itself caught in a premeditated cosmic "mistake," which hindered its path to fulfillment, that is, to Love. The Subconscious Stranger appears in several of Sorin Cerin's poems, he having the force of an obsession, with recuperative value. Living in the torn, dispersed universe of "absurd" materiality, the poet does nothing but move away from the Subconscious Stranger, salvation demanding, on the contrary, a path in the opposite direction, towards the recovery of the Subconscious and its putting in harmony with the Absolute. The precondition of "return" (an essential term for Gnosis) represents it, the internalization of Love: the sharing, from its substance, the preparation of transfiguration. Thus, having all the constitutive elements of the poet's personal poetic mythology, we can only reconstruct it. The starting point is, as in Gnosis, the existence of a "Foreign God" (called by the poet, the God of No One), who mispronounced, "carelessly" the Words of Genesis, revealing - without wanting, probably - a world unilaterally abstract, "absurd," in which the human spirit is put to the test. The will does not help them either, as we have seen that it happens with the metaphor of the drifting ship, because the world was created from the beginning wrong, with the normal meanings reversed. The major symbol of the volume expresses, therefore, a metaphysical trap: the human being is caught in an ironic "game", of eschatological type, from which, apparently, he has no way out. But the impasse turns out to be only apparent, because the builder of his own sublime edifice, that is, the poet, has specific, soteriological powers, through which the gate of salvation opens. All these powers are anti-systemic, ie anti-eschatological. Did "God of No One" put wrong words in the world which he created? The poet's purpose is to find the true ones - and to write them, in order to make them accessible and to those around him. Has the world headed, unknowingly, to wandering, dryness, and dispersion ?: the poet's purpose is to find meanings, significations and sources of energy, and to show them and to others, in order to replace the fragmented world with the promise of a beautiful, whole, bright one. Did the forces of matter stand in the way of the Absurd and of opacity? The purpose of the poet - and, implicitly, of man - is to plant Love in souls and to return toward the Absolute. Anyone can operate these essentialized retroversions, because, in the end, poet and man mean, in Sorin Cerin's system of thinking, about the same thing: two qualitatively related hypostases of the religious man, of the One who Believes. PhD Professor Al Cistelecan within the heading Avant la lettre, under the title Between reflection and attitude, appeared in the magazine Familia nr.11-12 November-December 2015, pag.16-18, Al Cistelecan considers about the poetry of meditation, of Sorin Cerin, that: "From what I see, Sorin Cerin is a kind of volcano textually, in continuously, and maximum eruption, with a writing equally frantic, as and, of convictions. In poetry,relies on gusts reflexive and on the sapiential enthusiasm, cultivating, how says alone in the subtitle of the Non-sense of the Existence, from here the poems "of meditation".One approach among all risky - not of today, yesterday, but from always - because he tend to mix where not even is, the work of poetry, making a kind of philosophizing versified, and willy-nilly, all kinds of punishments and morality. Not anymore is case to remind ourselves of the words said by Maiorescu, to Panait Cerna, about "philosophical poetry," because the poet, them knows, and, he very well, and precisely that wants to face: the risk of to work only in idea, and, of to subordinate the imaginative, to the conceptual.Truth be told, it's not for Sorin Cerin, no danger in this sense, for he is in fact a passional, and never reach the serenity and tranquility Apolline of the thought, on the contrary, recites with pathos rather from within a trauma which he tries to a exorcise, and to sublimates, into radical than from inside any peace of thought or a reflexive harmonies.Even what sounds like an idea nude, transcribed often aphoristic, is actually a burst of attitude, a transcript of emotion - not with coldness, but rather with heat (was also remarked, moreover, manner more prophetic of the enunciations).But, how the method, of, the taking off, lyrical, consists in a kind of elevation of everything that comes, up to the dignity of articulating their reflexive (from where the listing, any references to immediately, whether biographical or more than that), the poems by Cerin, undertake steep in the equations big existential and definitive, and they not lose time in, domestic confessions. They attack the Principle of reality, not its accidents. Thus, everything is raised to a dignity problematic, if no and of other nature, and prepared for a processing, densified. Risks of the formula, arise fatal, and here, because is seen immediately the mechanism of to promote the reality to dignity of the lyrism.One of the mechanisms comes from expressionist heritage (without that Sorin Cerin to have something else in common with the expressionists), of the capitalized letter, through which establishes suddenly and unpredictably, or humility radicalized , or panic in front of majesty of the word.Usually the uppercase, baptizes the stratum "conceptual" (even if some concepts are metaphors), signaling the problematic alert.It is true, Sorin Cerin makes excess and wastage, of the uppercase, such that, from a while, they do not more create, any panic, no godliness, because abundance them calms effects of this kind, and spoil them into a sort of grandiloquence.The other mechanism of the elevation in dignity rely on a certain - perhaps assumed, perhaps premeditated - pretentious discourse, on a thickening lexical, and on a deep and serious declamation.It is insinuated - of lest, even establishes - and here is an obvious procedure of imaginative recipe, redundant over tolerant. How is and normal - even inevitable - in a lyrical of reflection what wants to coagulate around certain cores conceptual, the modality immediate of awareness of these nodes conceptual, consists in materializing the abstractions, making them sensual is just their way of to do epiphany lyrical.But at, Sorin Cerin, imaginative mechanics is based on a simple use of the genitive, which materialize the abstractions, (from where endless pictures like "the thorns of the Truth," "chimney sweeps of the Fulfillments," " the brushes of Deceptions" etc. etc.), under, which most often is a button of personification.On the scale of decantation in metaphors we stand, thus, only on the first steps, what produces simultaneously, an effect of candor imaginative (or discoursive), but and one of uniformity.Probable but that this confidence in the primary processes is due to the stake on decanting of the thought, stake which let, in subsidiary, the imaginative action (and on the one symbolized more so) as such. But not how many or what ideas roam, through Sorin Cerin's poems are, however the most relevant, thing (the idea, generally, but and in this particular case, has a degree of indifference, to lyricism).On the contrary, in way somewhat paradoxically, decisive, not only defining, it's the attitude in which they gather, the affect in which coagulates.Beneath the appearance of a speech projected on "thought", Sorin Cerin promotes, in fact, an lyricism (about put to dry) of, emotions existential (not of intimate emotions). The reflexivity of the poems is not, from this perspective, than a kind of penitential attitude, an expression of hierarchies, of violent emotions. Passionate layer is, in reality, the one that shake, and he sees himself in almost all its components, from the ones of blaming, to the ones of piety, or tenderness sublimated (or, on the contrary, becoming sentimentalist again). The poet is, in substance, an exasperated of state of the world and the human condition and starting from here, makes exercises with sarcasm (cruel, at least, as, gush), on account of "consumer society" or on that of the vanity of "Illusions of the Existence". It's a fever of a figures of style that contains a curse, which gives impetus to the lyrics, but which especially highlights discoursive, the exasperation in front of this general degradation. So general, that she comprised and transcendental, for Sorin Cerin is more than irritated by the instrumentalization of the God (and, of the faith) in the world today. Irritation in front of corruption the sacred, reaches climax, in lyrics of maximum, nerve blasphemous ("Wickedness of Devil is called Evil, / while of the God, Good. ", but and others, no less provocative and" infamous " at the address the Godhead); but this does not happen, than because of the intensity and purity of his own faith (Stefan Borbely highlighted the energy of fervor from the poetry of Cerin), from a kind of devotional absolutism. For that not the lyrics, of challenge and blame, do, actually Cerin, on the contrary: lyrics of devotion desperate and passionate, through which him seeks "on Our True God / so different from the one of cathedrals of knee scratched / at the cold walls and inert of the greed of the Illusion of Life ". It is the devotional fever from on, the reverse, of imprecations and sarcasm, but precisely she is the one that contaminates all the poems. From a layer of ideals, squashed, comes out, with verve passionate, the attitudes, of Cerin, attitudes eruptive, no matter how, they would be encoded in a lyrical of reflections. " PhD Professor Elvira Sorohan - An existentialist poet of the 21st Century To fully understand the literary chronicle written by Elvira Sorohan in Convorbiri Literare, “Literary Conversations”, which refers to an article written by Magda Cârneci regarding Trans-poetry, and published in România literară, “Romania literary”, where specified what namely is poetry genuine, brilliant, the great poetry, on which a envies the poets of the last century, Elvira Sorohan, specifies in the chronicle dedicated to the poetry of Cerin, from, Convorbiri Literare, “Literary Conversations”, number 9 (237), pages 25-28, 2015 under the title An existentialist poet of the 21st century, that:Without understanding what is "trans-poetry", which probably is not more poetry, invoking a term coined by Magda Cârneci, I more read, however, poetry today and now I'm trying to say something about one certain.Dissatisfied of "insufficiency of contemporary poetry" in the same article from in România literară, "Literary Romania", reasonably poetess accuses in block, how, that what "delivers" now the creators of poetry, are not than notations of "little feeling", "small despairs" and "small thinking. "Paraphrasing it on Maiorescu, harsh critical of the diminutives cultivated by Alecsandri, you can not say than that poetry resulting from such notation is also low (to the cube, if enumeration stops at three).The cause identified by Magda Cârneci, would be the lack of inspiration, that tension psychical, specific the men of art, an experience spontaneous, what gives birth, uncontrollably, at creation.It is moment inspiring, in the case of poetry, charged of impulses affective, impossible to defeated rationally, an impulse on that it you have or do not it have, and, of, which is responsible the vocation.Simple, this is the problem, you have vocation, you have inspiration. I have not really an opinion formed about poetry of Magda Cârneci, and I can not know, how often inspiration visits her, but if this state is a grace, longer the case to look for recipes for to a induces ?And yet, in the name of the guild, preoccupation the poetess, for the desired state, focuses interrogative: "... the capital question that arises is the following: how do we to have access more often, more controlled and not just by accident, to those states intense, at the despised
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