Essayist Andrei Plesu believes that more important than truth and error is the path, more important than settling on a point and staying there is interrogativeness, "the search that gives more to gain than traditional common sense."
Plesu participated, on Friday, in the launch at the Arena stage of Bookfest, of the historical novel "Insomnia", signed by the Bessarabian writer and publicist Val Butnaru, published by Arc Publishing House, which sets the action in the years following the assassination of Tsar Alexander II.
The essayist praised Val Butnaru's work as a novelist, journalist, and playwright, characterizing him as "a man who always remained 'in the space between', using the charm of each of these genres."
"And this being between and everywhere is for me an old and important theme of my own thoughts. I believe that more important than truth and error is the path. More important than settling in a point and remaining there obediently is interrogativeness, the search that gives more to gain than traditional obedience. Or, if you read what Mr. Butnaru has published and you see that he wandered through Ecclesiastes, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Zarathustra, Caragiale, Pirandello, Stendhal, all of them are co-authors of his works. And that made me feel very close, because, after all, culture is such a sum of intervals. The library is a monument of interval. There are all the possible paths and all the roads you can take," said Plesu, according to Agerpres.
He recalled the meeting with theologian Andrei Scrima, who said that "in our church, in Christianity, in faith in general, more important than the truth is the path to it, because the path to it helps you find all kinds of adjacent things, because when you directly find the truth, all that remains is to go to bed"
"In the Gospel, Jesus says and this is forgotten or misinterpreted 'I am the Way, the Truth and the Life!'. The Way is the first. So that is the revealing activity, not the prompt finding and nani. In my own research and writing effort, this interest in the intermediary for the way, for the road, manifested itself in my interest in angels, because angels are between God and man. It amazed me, when I was young: 'God, man, but what is in between? Nothingness?' No, in the middle are the angels, who have the task from their creator, some to take care of each human person individually and some of the nations. There are angels of the nations. They, the angels of our nations, the Republic of Moldova and Romania, have been very busy for a long time. Sometimes, you have the feeling that they are also getting confused, but, in any case, this connects us. And the fact that we are also connected The Republic of Moldova and Romania, speaking of the interval, are 'countries between', they are not located and are neither to the East nor to the West, they are between. They are neither to the North nor to the South, they are between. Between does not mean neither nor, it means both and. We have both openness to the East and openness to the West and to the North and to the South," the essayist pointed out.
In context, Plesu appreciated that "survival, normality, love in a flawed, oppressive environment are a form of extraordinary resistance, which must also be honored."
"Otherwise, we cannot know what will happen. I am waiting for Mr. Butnaru's next novel, which will explain the final part of the road to us, although at this moment, I confess, I do not see any solutions. As an English friend told me, 'the only solution to Putin is Put out.' But I do not know exactly how this can be done. We also have Rasputin. It is a predestined name. I am grateful to Mr. Val Butnaru for this book, for all his books, for everything he does, because I feel him on the road. He still has a lot ahead of him and we still have a lot to expect at the end where, perhaps, we have settled in too early," Andrei Plesu also said.
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