Sorin Cerin

Sorin Cerin (born Sorin Hodorogea on November 25, 1963 in Baia Mare, Romania) is a Romanian philosopher and poet of Balkan and Greeks.
== Life and Career ==
Sorin Cerin was born on November 25, 1963 in Baia Mare, Romania, with the name of Sorin Hodorogea, being of Balkan and Greeks. He spent the first years of his childhood in the parish of his grandfather, an Orthodox priest, in the village of Săuca, Satu Mare county. After finishing high school in Baia Mare, he continued his studies in Bucharest. He took an active part in the Romanian Revolution of December 1989, after that he became editor of a Romanian newspaper Dreptatea, in order to finally choose the path of exile and took refuge in the United States, he left for the Australian continent, as an international press correspondent for Australia. In 2013, Sorin Cerin was selected among the 20 authors of the Anthology of Contemporary Romanian Aphorism published under the auspices of the Romanian Academy in Rome and the Italian Association of Aphorism. Wisdom Collection by Sorin Cerin, has been published, in the series, in each issue of the journal Literary Destinies, which appears in North America, starting with issue 8 of the magazine, since December 2009 and ending with the 36th December 2015 issue of the magazine.In 2020 Wisdom Collection is translated into Bulgarian and published in Bulgaria by Sveta na Knigitte publishing house . Sorin Cerin publishes a collection of philosophical poetry in France, in the year 2021 , who receives the Mompezat prize of the Foundation of the Society of French Poets (Société des poètes français) .
== Academic appreciations ==
=== Contribution in poetry ===
Sorin Cerin's poetry is considered in various academic studies, a philosophical or existentialist poetry by literary critics published in cultural magazines such as those signed by Alexandru Cistelecan in Familia (magazine) and then in Poezia, for which Sorin Cerin managed to write a philosophical poetry about which literary critics such as Titu Maiorescu and Panait Cerna, who said in their day, that it was so hard to do, since there is a risk of working only on the idea and subordinating the imaginative to the conceptual . Elvira Sorohan sees Sorin Cerin's poetry as a continuation of the 21st century existentialist movement, as proof even from the title of the article entitled: An Existentialist Poet of the 21st Century, published in the culture magazine Convorbiri literare, where he highlights in Sorin Cerin a poetic work with influences from the forerunners of existentialism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, like Jean Paul Sartre, Gabriel Marcel or Soren Kierkegaard, or even the biblical Ecclesiastes, appreciating that Sorin Cerin reconfigured the existentialism of the present, although it was believed until then that existentialism was exhausted. . Others such as Stefan Borbely, in Contemporanul associate Sorin Cerin's poetry with specific influences from Manichaeism, Maya (religion) from Hinduism or pre-Christianity. Another part of literary criticism as well Laura Lazar Zavaleanu, in Familia (magazine), attributes to it connotations of intertextuality identified , intrinsically, with Lucian Blaga through philosophical reflection and prosodic structure , while Eugen Evu associates the philosophical poetry of Sorin Cerin with the neo-knowledge of the Platonism-Socrates essence, which make the books become objects of testamentary worship and culture . Instead, as Gheorghe Andrei Neagu notes in his review, other critics such as Călin Teutișan see in Cerin's poetic work a fatal nostalgia for Meaning, and for Cornel Moraru, a poem by a prophet of existential nothingness, for Ovidiu Moceanu is the poetry of the great existential questions, and for Ana Blandiana, Cerin's poetry does not state philosophical truths, it weaves revelations about these truths . Instead, another side of literary criticism, considered by critics as Maria Ana Tupan which finds influences from Emil Cioran's essays, highlighted in an existentialist project, Ion Vlad who sees Sorin Cerin's reflexivity (social theory)|reflexivity as dominant, Mircea Muthu he noticed in Sorin Cerin the despair of finding a Meaning of life of contemporary existence, Ioan Holban compare Sorin Cerin's poetry with the biblical Cain lost in the wilderness., and for Marian Odangiu Sorin Cerin's lyrics are distorted world of value, or for Cornel Ungureanu, Sorin Cerin ritualizes the times of poetic deconstruction..
=== Wisdom literature contribution ===
Ion Dodu Balan frames the wisdom literature work of Sorin Cerin together with personalities such as: Homer, Marcus Aurelius, François III de La Rochefoucauld, Baltasar Gracian, Arthur Schopenhauer and many others, while in Romanian literature since the chroniclers of the XVII and XVIII century, to Anton Pann, Constantin Negruzzi, Mihai Eminescu, Nicolae Iorga, Garabet Ibrăileanu, Lucian Blaga and George Călinescu . In turn, Gheorghe Vladutescu includes the books of wisdom literature of Sorin Cerin, in their historical framework, claiming to have roots in the ancient East but also in ancient Greece , Other literary critics have also written, like Mircea Pop, in Familia (magazine), who considers, like others, that Sorin Cerin is a "moralist" with a thought and contemporary sensibility but which puts the absolute in correlation with truth, hope, faith, sin, absurdity, happiness, etc., , or Ion Pachia Tatomirescu, who states in his book, Pages of tomorrow's Wallachian literary history, that Sorin Cerin's aphorisms belong to Paradoxism , Adrian Dinu Rachieru exemplifies some aphorisms that he considers memorable of Sorin Cerin's work, such as Life, which is the "epic of the soul" or the future "father of death" .
=== Philosophical contribution ===
Sorin Cerin's philosophical work focuses on what Sorin Cerin defines as Coaxialism as a philosophical system. about which Henrieta Anisoara Serban states that it would belong of the philosophy of conscience, contextualism and philosophy of mind, that is relevant for the critique of the representationalism and postmodernism, with influences from Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche and Ludwig Wittgenstein . So do others like Theodor Codreanu, wrote academic reviews, developed later in studies, published in books, such as the book entitled Anamorphoses, published in 2017 by of Scara publishing in Bucharest, pages 130-147, ISBN (identifier)|ISBN Special:BookSources/978-606-940-119-4|978-606-940-119-4 , who considers that that the whole structure of Sorin Cerin's literary and aphoristic work is based on Coaxialism, and the Coaxialism seems to be bordering on Paradoxism, but it is much more than that, approaching, rather, the dualistic philosophical and religious systems, culminating in Gnosticism and, at first sight, in Cartesianism|Cartesian rationalism with influences from Friedrich Nietzsche and Immanuel Kant, regarding the Interpretation (logic)|interpretation of the theory of the postmodern history of the Agnosticism. However, Sorin Cerin's Interpretation (logic)|interpretation is closer to Immanuel Kant's than by Friedrich Nietzsche, where Agnosticism according to which pure reason has access only to the phenomenon, never to the noumenon, recognized by the phrase Absolute convergence|Absolute Truth, as opposed to the Illusions of Life, which recognizes its Status quo bias|status as applications to the truth , but, paradoxically, as a characteristic lie of the human being. .
== Bibliography ==
=== Poetry books ===
* The nonsense of existence and eternity, ( Le nonsense de l'existence et de l'éternité ) Stellamaris publishing house, Brest, France, 2021, 
* The Nonsense of Existence: Poems of Meditation, (Non-Sensul Existentei: poezii de meditatie) Paco Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2015, 
* The Great Silences: Poems of Meditation, (Marile taceri: poezii de meditatie) Paco Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2015, 
* Death: poems of meditation, (Moarte: poezii de meditatie) Paco Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2015, 
* Through the cemeteries of dreams: poems of meditation (Prin cimitirele viselor: poezii de meditatie) Paco Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2015, 
* The Illusion of Life: Poems of Meditation (Iluzia Vietii: poezii de meditatie), Paco Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2015 
* Happiness: Poems of Meditation (Fericire: poezii de meditatie), eLiteratura Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2015, 
* Cardboard Days- Poems of Meditation (Zile de Carton: poezii de meditatie), eLiteratura Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2015, 
* Make the world (Facerea lumii), Paco Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2013 
* We are a hologram- poems of meditation (Suntem o Holograma: poezii de meditatie), eLiteratura Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2015 
* A moment of eternity- meditation poems (O Clipă de Eternitate: poezii de meditatie), eLiteratura Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2015 
* Free Will: Meditation Poems (Liberul Arbitru: Poezii de meditatie) Bucharest, Romania, Paco, 2015, 
* To be a poet- poems of meditation (A fi Poet: poezii de meditatie), eLiteratura Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2015 
* Angels and Immortality: Poems (Ingeri si nemurire: poeme), Paco Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2014, 
* The Address of a Cup of Coffee (Adresa unei cești de cafea) Paco Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2013, 
* The Savior's Choice (Alegerea Mântuitorului) Paco Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2013, 
* The Word of God (Cuvântul Lui Dumnezeu) Paco Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2013, 
* Politics (Politics) Paco Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2013, 
* Heart of Bitter Stone (Inimă de piatră amară) Paco Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2012, 
* The shadow of hearts (Umbrele inimilor) Paco Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2012, 
* Perfume of Eternity (Parfum de eternitate) Paco Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2012, 
* Memento Mori (Memento Mori) Paco Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2012,
* Legends of the Soul (Legendele sufletului) Paco Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2012, 
* Truth Remembrance Love (Adevar Amintire Iubire) Paco Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2012, 
* We were our great loves (Eram Marile Noastre Iubiri) Paco Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2012, 
=== Books of wisdom literature ===
* Aphorisms Anthology of Wisdom.- Aphorisms (Антология на Мъдростта.) Zveta na Knigite Publishing House, Varna, Bulgaria, 2020,
* God and Destiny (Dumnezeu și Destin) Paco Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2014, 
* Essential Thoughts, (Cugetari esentiale) Paco Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2013, 
* Wandering (Rătăcire) Paco Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2013, 
* Freedom (Libertate) Paco Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2013, 
* Wisdom Collection, (Culegere de Intelepciune) Eminescu Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2009 
* Learn to die (Invață să mori) Paco Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2009, 
* Immortality (Nemurire) Paco Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2009, 
* Revelations (Revelatii) Paco Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2008, 
=== Philosophical books ===
* The Coaxialism (Coaxialismul) Paco Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2007, 
* The Coaxiological Logic (Logica coaxiologica) Paco Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2007, 
* The state of conception in phenomenological coaxiology (Starea de concepțiune în coaxiologia fenomenologică) Paco Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2007 
* Antichrist Being and Love (Antichrist Fiinta si Iubire) Paco Publishing House, Bucharest, Romania, 2007, 
== Bibliography of critical appraisals ==
* Between reflection and attitude (Intre reflectie si atitudine), author, Alexandru Cistelecan, Familia (magazine) (Familia) nr.11-12 November-December 2015, pag.16-18 , article republished by Poetry magazine (Poezia) and in online format, April 10, 2016
* An existentialist poet of the 21st century (Un poet existentialist din secolul 21), author, Elvira Sorohan, The Literary Talks magazine (Convorbiri literare), September 2015 issue, pages 25-28 
* The gnoses of Sorin Cerin (Gnozele lui Sorin Cerin), author, Stefan Borbely, The contemporary (Contemporanul) October 2020, page 53
* Set of literary criticism entitled: Sorin Cerin, signed by the authors: Maria Ana Tupan, Ion Vlad, Mircea Muthu, Ioan Holban, Marian Odangiu, Cornel Ungureanu, Theodor Codreanu, Stefan Borbely, Literary mirror (Oglinda literara), nr. 162, June, 2015, page 10977
* The nonsense of existence and eternity by Sorin Cerin, author LivresdAvril, Babelio, October 17, 2021
* Intermittent to Sorin Cerin, Make the world, Requirements (Fulgurante la .Sorin Cerin, Facerea lumii, Requirements), author, Eugen Evu, Literary destinies (Destine literare), Canada, Montreal, nr. 32, November-December, pag. 68, 2014 37, article developed in his book titled Therapy through play, (Terapie de joc), Publishing House Tipo Moldova, Iași, page 268, 2014, 
* Lyrical Silences (Taceri lirice), author, Laura Lazar Zavaleanu, Family magazine (Familia). nr. 7-8, July - August, pag. 242, 2015
* Set of literary criticism signed by Gheorghe Vladutescu and aphorisms from Wisdom Collection, Literary Destinies magazine (Destine literare) nr. 8, December 2009, pages 26-27
* Sorin Cerin - An author of meditation and revelation (Sorin Cerin - Un autor al meditatiei si al revelatiei), author, Gheorghe Andrei Neagu, Literary Mirror (Oglinda literara), nr. 163, July, 2015, page 10998.
* Pages of tomorrow's Wallachian literary history (Pagini de istorie Valahă de mâine), author, Ion Pachia Tatomirescu, Waldpress Publishing House, Timișoara, pag. 405-409, 2015 ISBN 978-606-614-128-4
* Dualism as a temptation to rationalism (Dualismul ca ispita a rationalismului), author, Theodor Codreanu, Literary mirror (Oglinda literara) nr.167, pages 11283, November, 2015 4142 article developed in his book entitled Anamorphoses, published in 2017 by of Scara publishing in Bucharest, pages 130-147, 
* An expatriate and repatriated, Romanian writer (Un expatriat si repatriat scriitor roman), author, Florentin Smarandache, Literary destinies (Destine literare), n°39, p.92, July-October 2016.
* About the creation of wisdom (Despre creatia sapientiala), author, Ion Dodu Balan, Romanian Evening Star (Luceafarul Romanesc) April 2009, article also published in printed format by Literary Destinies magazine (Destine literare), Canada, Montreal, April - May, page.14-15, 2009.
* An invitation to meditation (O invitatie la meditatie), author, Adrian Dinu Rachieru, Romanian Evening Star (Luceafarul Romanesc) May 2009.
* A Wisdom Collection (O Culegere de Intelepciune), author Mircea Pop, Familia (magazine) (Familia) nr.11-12 November-December 2009, pag. 2014 
* The Coaxialism by Sorin Cerin, author Henrieta Anisoara Serban, Kogaion Revoir (Kogaion Review), June 2007 
== Encyclopedias ==
* Encyclopedia of Contemporary Romanian Writers Everywhere- Phoenix Bird Collection, (Enciclopedia Scriitorilor Români Contemporani de Pretutindeni- Colecția Pasărea Phoenix, authors: Mihai Cimpoi, Traian Vasilcău. - Chisinau, Rep. Moldova, publishing house, Central Printing Office, 2019 - pages 203 – 204
== Dictionaries ==
* A dictionary of contemporary Romanian writers, volume IV, Opera Omnia, (Un Dicționar al Scriitorilor Români Contemporani, volumul IV, Opera Omnia) coordinator Ioan Holban, publishing house Tipo Moldova, Iasi 2016, pages 137–146
* Dictionary of Romanian writers today, (Dicţionarul scriitorilor români de azi) authors Boris Craciun and Daniela Crăciun-Costin, Porțile Orientului publishing house, Iaşi. 2011
* The biobibliographical dictionary, (Dicţionarul biobibliografic) authors Anda Dejeu, Nicoleta Avram, Izabela Cerchezan, Andrei Cete, Sandra Cibicenco, Mădălina Olteanu, Andreia Precub, Roxana Roman, Dacia XXI publishing house, Cluj Napoca.2011
== Anthologies ==
* Universal Oneness: An Anthology of Magnum Opus Poems from Around the World, author, Vivekanand Jha, Authorspress publishing house , (January 1, 2019), New Delhi, India, page 465
* Anthology of contemporary Romanian aphorism, (Antologia dell'aforisma romeno contemporaneo), authors Fabrizio Caramagna, Alina Breje, publishing house, Genesi editrice, Italy, pages 43–46
* Literary texts: Anthology (Text literare/ Anthology) authors, Aurelia Codreanu, Svetlana Stanţieru. - [Bălţi], “Alecu Russo” State University Publishing House, 2019. – 250 p.Rep. Moldova 
* Anthology of Romanian contemporary prose, Poor Dionysos collection, (Antology of proza ​​romaneasca contemporana, Colectia Sarmanul Dionis) Scrisul publishing house, author Carmen Cătunescu, Ploiești, 2014, pages 99–100
* Anthology of contemporary Romanian poetry, collection The morning star has begun, (Antologie de poezie contemporana romaneasca, colectia Porni Luceafarul) Scrisul publishing house, author Carmen Cătunescu, Ploiești, 2014, pages 79–80
* Beyond the word, (Dincolo de cuvant) coordinator Valentina Becart, publishing house Arhip Art, Sibiu, 2012, pages 155–173
== Literary awards ==
Mompezat Prize from the Foundation of the Society of French Poets - Paris, France, for the collection of poems: "The non-sense of existence and eternity", 2021.
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