The inner man

"A passionate comparator, Mariana Balöescu is a reader of great intellectual refinement, launched on the adventure of exploring the inner man. Her hermeneutic consciousness is shaped by the consciousness of the author and the consciousness of the work, whose moral and aesthetic universe includes all those chosen to participate in the life of literature or, in other words, literary life. Through her book, Mariana Balöescu has found the way, like the initiated knight to whom the secret of the coveted chalice was revealed." (Rodica Ilie)"Mariana Balöescu, to tell the stories of the inner man in Homer, Sophocles, Dante, Shakespeare or Cervantes, approaches patristic and mystical thought, to understand moral consciousness and to overcome ambiguity in the interpretation of the inner life reflected in literature. This is the beginning of the encounter between philological knowledge and theological and philosophical-historical knowledge. A beginning of a new integrative critique, which the understanding of literature, undermined by posthumanism, badly needs today." (Porfirie Pescaru)