Marin Sorescu - La lilieci: nume si poreclă
Marin Sorescu - La lilieci: Names and Nick-names

Summary/Abstract: This paper approaches the names of the characters in Marin Sorescu’s narrative poems from the six volumes La lilieci. It focuses on the popular system of denomination with the nicknames. This system of denomination is a special characteristic of the rural society and thus the poems from La lilieci express a real image of the Oltenian village. The paper also demonstrates that in the Romanian villages as well as in Sorescu’s poems people are better known by their nick-names than by their official names which are, in a popular traditions, identified as “Sunday names”.

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