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Mira Şimian (1920-1978) - 90 de ani de la naştere

  • Subiect: The author presents the life and work of writer and painter Mira Şimian (-Baciu) (b. 1920, in Râmnicu Vâlcea, Romania – d. 1978 in Honolulu, Hawaii), a personality of the Romanian diaspora. He uses, especially, the information from the memorialistic novel Mira (Bucharest, 1998) written by her husband, the writer Ştefan Baciu. She is rather unknown to the Romanian public (and not only!). First, the author evoques the life of Mira Şimian in Romania (1920 – 1946), summarizing the childhood in her parents house – Dinu Şimian (an industrialist and top politician, killed later by the communist detention) and Constanţa Bejan, daughter of a Polish farmacist; then, the teeanage studies at the Faculty of Pharmacy from Bucharest, where she also met her future husband. The second stage is the one of the life in diaspora: two years at the Romanian Embassy in Bern (Switzerland), the exile in Brazil (1949-1962) and USA, at the universities of Seattle (1962-1964) and Honolulu (1964-1978), teaching Spanish and French, at the last one. Mira Şimian exhibited as an excellent manager of international cultural meetings, in Brazil and Hawaii, collaborating (with verses, graffics and plastic reviews) to the international literary-artistic magazines. Her philological studies at the University of Strassburg (1965-1970) finalized with a PhD thesis on the work of Eugène Ionesco. As a poet, Mira Şimian is the author of two volums of verses: Charms, 1966, in Romanian language (with a posthumous edition, in 1979, prefaced by Matei Călinescu) and Houla Macumba Hora, 1973, Paris, in French language, prefaced by Jacques Borel; she realised in verses a supernatural atmosphere (Jacques Borel), through a „mélange” of pictures from her native country, but also from the countries of exile, with crossroads of a interplanetary horizon, allien, however; the same traumatic and nostalgic experience express her short pieces of proze compiled in the volum The Daughter of Temelie, as well as in her last years paintings. As an essay writer, Mira Şimian promoted the work of the Romanians Urmuz, as the „prophet” of the avantgarde, and Eugène Ionesco, a „classic” of the literature of absurd, as well as the work of French poets Charles D'Orleans and Pierre Ronsard, seen as „avantgarde poets”, but also of the great Christian poet Paul Claudel. As much as she managed to manifeste on the artistic plan, „all her successes were steps” (N. Carandino) towards a fulfillment that she did not achieve due to a severe illness. 75 authors, writers, plastic artists, journalists have celebrated her in the 1979 edition of the international magazine of poetry „Mele” (Hawaii), which was dedicated to Mira Şimian.
  • Limba de redactare: română, engleză
  • Secţiunea: Memorialistică
  • Vezi publicația: Buridava - Studii şi Materiale: Buridava
  • Editura: Offsetcolor
  • Loc publicare: Râmnicu Vâlcea
  • Anul publicaţiei: 2010
  • Referinţă bibliografică pentru nr. revistă: VIII; anul 2010
  • Paginaţia: 293-302
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