Corin Braga

Quick Facts

Full Name	Corin Braga
Occupation	Literary Critic
Date Of Birth	Jan 12, 1961(1961-01-12)
Age	63
Country	Romania
Birth City	Baia Mare
Horoscope	Capricorn

Corin Braga Biography

Corin Braga is one of the most popular and richest Literary Critic who was born on January 12, 1961 in Baia Mare, Romania. Braga’s most well-known work is Noctambulli the series of four novels written in the Oniric type of writing. It is a style of writing that was that was introduced by Romanian Onirist writer in the 60s. Three of the books from the collection, Claustrofobul, Hidra, and Luiza Textoris were released in 1992 in 1996, 1992 and 2012 respectively. The fourth installment from the collection is scheduled for release in 2019. He also wrote two journals of his dreams, Oniria (1985-1995) in 1999 and Acedia. (1998-2007), in 2014. The novel was critically acclaimed and was awarded the Great Prize at FestLit (National Festival of Literature) Cluj.

From 1996 to the present, Braga was a part of the development of the Analytical Dictionary of Romanian Literary Works and since 1998, he’s added to the Dictionary of Romanian Writers. Braga was appointed the vice-president of the Association of General and Comparative Literature of Romania in the year 2011 and vice-president of the Centre de Recherches Internationales sur l’Imaginaire (CRI2i) in 2012.

In De la Arhetip la Anarhetip (2006), Braga defined the “anarchetype” as a different pattern for cultural, religious, literary and art works, alternative to the concept of archetype (or human universal). Reviewing the book, Andrea Cornea wrote in Idei in dialog that “the chapters dedicated to the premodern cartographic imaginary are not only charming and full of substance, but also written with an admirable competence, understanding and adequacy that makes them highly recommendable to anyone studying medieval or Renaissance imagery, and generally to anyone who wants to understand how it worked the European collective imaginary.

The third book in the series, Luiza Textoris, was published in 2012. Luiza Textoris reverses the perspective of the first two novels. The main character of the story, Luiza, is a teenage girl who dreams so much that she begins to loose the sense of reality and starts living psychotic delirium episodes. In order to help her, her boyfriend, Fulviu Friator, who practices yoga and meditation, teaches her how to create a dream-double, an alternative personality emerging in dreams in order to relieve the original of experiencing traumatic nocturnal episodes. Luiza and Fulviu start dreaming together. In the dream world, Anir and Adela, the characters of the first two novels, appear to be the dream doubles of Luiza and Fulviu, which connects the story of the four. In a review about Luiza Textoris, Echinox Magazine wrote that “although, in a first reading, the novel is overcrowded and confused, and some events seem to be not logically linked or difficult to justify, it must always be remembered that we are dealing with a well-built oniric novel; not everything has to make sense from the beginning and the overall atmosphere that it has to leave is that of a dream, of a logic behind the usual logic.”

The year 1992 was when Braga released the initial novel within the series Noctambulii that translates to Night-Walkers which hints at the whimsical style of the novels. The plot of all novels is not governed by logic, but rather by dreams and magic. The book that started it all, Claustrofobul tells the story of Anir Margus who is a young geologist who is assigned the task of preventing water that is deep within the soil layers from threatening to flood a town called Clusium. Anir is able to channel the rising waters into deeper layers of soil. He then gets elected as the town’s ruler in place of Holom who was the president before him. The absorption of the water causes an opening in the ground that causes the building to fall down and the landslides. By manipulating Holom, Anir is removed in a protest by the public and is reconstructed as the form of a fountain. A sequel to Claustrofobul book, titled Hidra which was released in the year 1996. Hidra is the tale of Adela Vlaia, the fiance of Anir who, after the execution of her husband, plunges herself into the lake monument. But instead of drowning she plunges into an underground worldthat is similar to Clusium. She travels around the world in search of Anir and in the process she lives her existence in reverse.

Corin Braga Net Worth

Corin Braga is one of the richest Literary Critic from Romania. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Corin Braga 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Braga was born on the 21st of May, 1961 in Baia Mare, Romania. He graduated with a qualification from the department of Romanian and Spanish literature and language at the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca in 1985. He began teaching Romanian literature and language at Andrei Muresanu High School in Bistrita where he taught until 1988. He began his work as an expert in literature for Romania’s Radu Stanca National Theatre in Sibiu.

In 1990, he quit his position as a theatre manager at Radu Stanca theatre , and started his PhD in Literature at Babes-Bolyai University. In the same year, he began his studies in the Institute of Linguistic and Literary History in Cluj. His research there led to the creation of the Chronological Dictionary of the Romanian Novel. From 1993 onwards, Braga was appointed assistant professor of literature of comparative studies at the Babes-Bolyai University. In 1993, he took over as head of Echinox Cultural Review and worked until the start of 2000. The year 1997 was the time he finished his PhD.

Braga continued teaching at the Babes-Bolyai University as associate professor and then full professor. In 2001, he founded Caietele Echinox and, in 2002, he founded Phantasma – The Center for Imagination Studies at the Faculty of Letters. In 2000, he began a second PhD in Philosophy from the Jean Moulin University in France and received the degree in 2008. He became the Dean of Faculty of Letters at the Babes-Bolyai University in 2008.

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The fourth novel, Ventrilocul (to be published in 2019), will be focused on Fulviu Friator, presenting his life before and after meeting Luiza Textoris.

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Corin Ranked on the list of most popular Literary Critic. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Romania. Corin Braga celebrates birthday on January 12 of every year.