The value of our university's teaching staff is confirmed once again.
Literary critic, essayist, publicist and professor of the Faculty of Letters, History and Theology, Mr. Mircea Mihăieș won the special prize of the jury, as part of the 2019 Romanian Writers' Union Awards, for the publication at Polirom Publishing House, in 2019, of the volume "A night with Molly Bloom. A woman's novel" (Polirom publishing house).
The jury that selected the award-winning book was formed by Mihai Zamfir (president), along with Gabriela Gheorghișor, Ioan Holban, Angelo Mitchievici, Ovidiu Pecican, Cornel Ungureanu and Răzvan Voncu.
Along with Mircea Mihăieș, the writers Ștefan Bolea ("Jung and shadow philosophy", Tracus Arte publishing house) and Corina Ciocârlie, Andreea Răsuceanu ("Dictionary of places literature from Bucharest", Humanitas publishing house).
About “A Night with Molly Bloom. A woman's novel" the author declared: "A night with Molly Bloom it is the story of a character that acutely illustrates and radically undermines the idea of love passion in the western culture of the last centuries. Molly Bloom is also the "merry wife" of Shakespeare's Windsor, she is also Moll Flanders, and Fanny Hill, and the younger and less neurotic, but more daring sister of Anna Karenina and Emma Bovary, and Sade's Justine, and Venus in furs, and the heroine of a Histoire d'O that has not yet been written, and a Simone de Beauvoir avant la lettre. Molly Bloom is at the crossroads of premodern and modern mentalities, perceptions and sensibilities. When he did not defeat them, he knew how to make them an ally. She conquered them and assumed them, in all her guises: the imperial Molly. Molly defrauded. Molly carousel. Natural Molly. Molly triplex. Molly of Troy. Stone Molly. Afternoon Molly. nocturnal molly Molly alone. Molly assembly. Molly mille-feuilles. Molly grande-bouffe”.
"I congratulate and wish him health to the distinguished university professor Mircea Mihăieș, member of the academic community of the Western University of Timișoara. The volume for which he has now won the special prize of the jury of the Romanian Writers' Union, "A night with Molly Bloom." A woman's novel" will represent a new treasure of literary openings, through which UVT students will sharpen their knowledge and guide their understanding of life. Thank you, Mircea Mihăieș, for your valuable academic and literary contribution", said the rector of UVT, prof. Dr. Marilen Gabriel Pirtea, about the receipt of the literary distinction by Professor Mircea Mihăieș.
All the nominations of this edition of the Romanian Writers' Union Awards can be found at the web address: https://uniuneascriitorilor.ro/2020-09-02-nominalizari-la-premiile-uniunii-scriitorilor-din-romania-pentru-anul-2019
