"Manole the builder"
Between history and myth, set in a time and a certain place, rising to timeless heights to express the eternal truths of his spirit and works, the Ballad of the Argeș Monastery or of Manole Master is endowed with that strange and fruitful ambiguity of the great creation transmitted by us from the ancient world.
A production of the voice of the people, as Herder would say, explains, in the distant times of traditional wisdom, in art images, the truths of the creative process; it establishes, as an impressive model, valid for the entire Balkan area, the archetypal impulses of those who participate in the noble game of construction.
What was a bridge with the Greeks or the Serbs, the object of the construction in the Romanian version of the ballad is a monastery, a masterpiece of architecture, built for pure worship or for the eternal memory of the patron, himself the legendary founder of the country.
After hearing him squirm and rejoice, he remembers a cry like that of the holy-minded Emperor Justinian who, through a hybrid that dominated among most of the world's potential, thought to be in competition with another great builder of buildings. from history.
Following the Byzantine tradition, here is our Voivode evoking archetypal reactions. No one in the world should enjoy such beauty and grandeur. The masterpiece made for him should really possess the absolute value of uniqueness. His insidious question addressed the results of the mason, after their scathing and reckless answer, in a death sentence that would make it impossible to reproduce their work, so its devaluation.
Although the icarian idea that originally came from the mind of an architect (Dædalus, the builder of the Moss of Labyrinth) belonged to him, Manole's death is not the same as that of the craftsmen and travelers who springs from the roof to their death, as in an expressionist vision, with everyone lying around the monastery.
With his share of eternity gained not only through his genius and his work, but also through the immolation of everything that was dearer to him, to his wife and unborn child, the master now belongs to another order that saves time and degradation.
A myth of such beauty generates numerous translations, lyrical, epic or dramatic (from Goga to Blaga and Labis), as well as more or less specialized glosses. However, in no work or exegesis inspired by the myth, one can hear those unmatched levels that are implicit in the simple Romanian ballad. It is there like Miorița, at the twilight door, mysterious of ancient truths.
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