Santa Cetate – Ion Heliade Rădulescu ou sur l’(in)actualité de l’idéologie du socialisme utopique

Résumé

Being a well-known Romantic personality, Ion Heliade Rădulescu builds up utopian universes reflecting the main cultural, social and political ideas of his epoch but never to become practical due to their over-complex construction. In his attempt to adapt Hugo’s pattern of The Legend of Centuries (Legenda secolelor), Heliade creates a large poem entitled Anatolida which is meant to re-write the main cosmogonic moments in a personal view. From an ideological perspective, his work is highly eclectic. Thus, in Anatolida, the Christian themes turned into a personal view are doubled by the pre-Christian elements and contemporary socio-political theories. The last fragment, the utopian Santa Cetate, becomes the ideal social solution and the climax of human evolution, showing how the holly and the profane coexist on the same ontologic level due to the Socialist utopian drive and how the universal peace conquers world, making the Good the absolute principle of existence.