Dor (Romania)
The Dor is a sensation or character trait that is often described as the main characteristic of the Romanian "national character" or a specifically Romanian mentality . Like other such concepts (such as the Finnish sisu or the German Weltschmerz ), the word is considered untranslatable, but can be roughly outlined with longing , separation pain , nostalgia or melancholy . The saudade of the Portuguese should feel very similar , as Mircea Eliade (Romanian cultural attaché in Lisbon at the time) explained in an article in 1941.
The dor was often used in Romanian national romanticism and by philosophers such as Lucian Blaga and Constantin Noica to describe the fundamental characteristics of the Romanian people and their way of thinking. The composer George Enescu described dor as "sadness in the midst of joy" and formative, always present mood of Romanian music. It is particularly characteristic of the doină , the Romanian folk ballad.
Individual evidence
- ^ Neuter according to Dicţionarul explicativ al limbii române. ( Memento of the original from November 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Academia Română, Institutul de Lingvistică "Iorgu Iordan", Editura Univers Enciclopedic, 1998.
- ↑ Lucian Boia : History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness. Central European University Press, Budapest 2001. p. 147.
- ↑ Mircea Eliade : Dor - a Saudade romena . In: Acção of December 31, 1941, p. 3.
- ↑ Mircea Goga: Une île de latinité: culture, civilization, langue et littérature roumaines. Presses de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2004. pp. 34–36.
- ↑ Michael Metzeltin: About Alecsandris Doine. In: Günter Holtus, Edgar Radke (eds.): Romanian Studies in Discussion . Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen 1986. p. 363.
