Cleopatra Lorintiu « Tudor Opris »


  Writer, teacher, botanist and cultural leader of the literary movement of  the youth

Some people carry within themselves the same generosity to teach others: Professor Tudor Opris is a sort of Don Quixote, full of grace, generosity, great master of sparkling combinations of ideas.

A writer of great culture and a huge developer documentation, mischievous spirit and researcher who has an enormous capacity for work, Professor Opris is an altruist.

In the film that I realized about his career has been introduced also shooting done in the park Cismigiu, Bucharest, in the National Gh.Lazar College, where he taught and at his home, accompanied by his wife, artist painter and designer Elena Boariu Opris, which accompanied by his inspired drawings so many books published by the teacher, especially most of his poems.

Of course, these dialogues have been shot by the cameraman to keep the memory in a film, because I insisted to do so.
But all the other dialogues, inflamed and often inflammatory, when the teacher burns ideas and you can not put a word, when information arises as a volcano with so much humor and nostalgia, all the memories and his enormous ability to remember, reflect, make the teacher a character totally unique, unusual and unique.

The smile always on his lips, natural and generous, the professor has received for decades thousands of letters from young people who wrote their poems: those who started in the literary magazines and asked him for help, support or advice.

Indeed his attitude has not changed during the last 40 years. It is a huge and totally selfless, ongoing support given to young people who aspire to do in literature, writing and may be journalists or writers.
Here are some extracts of these dialogs:

  Teaching, a profession that requires

Cleopatra Lorintiu - Mr. Professor here, where it is today our shooting, it is indeed the way to your old school where you taught for decades.
Opris Tudor- It 's true. I have traveled this path more than a quarter of a century. Here, in the Garden Cismigiu located in the centre of Bucharest, my teacher, the renowned botanist Ion Simionescu taught me the names of plants, herbs and how to identify them.
I am always happy when I crossed the park, as Anatole France in the famous garden of Luxembourg and I remembered Professor Simionescu, his flowers and the path that we walk together ".

You are the same today; you show the same generosity and availability to children and youth of today "as well as to young people` d `there is a quarter century.
It is a profession that requires. It must have a strong biological but at the same time we adopt s somehow of the attitude at the age of your students. We don `forget that they consider you all the time that they observe you. And just as a teacher can be judged on appearing in the generations that followed. In addition, I believe a theory that can be not confirmed in a scientific point of view: the idea of bio transfers. When you work among the children, it is a part of their energy that would otherwise dissipate in the `universe, which comes to the teacher and the younger constantly.

You have taught both generations, you probably end an eye sociologist as well as educational. Is that `there are huge differences between these generations?
There are perennial features of all generations children `s, parameters invariables biological and psychological. There are also differences from the patterns, attitudes, system `s going to inform young people who` d today a kind of extraordinary precocity, a `capacity to understand the intuition phenomena. At fourteen, fifteen years, they leave the impression that they are people who are ahead of their age. But if they are causing a bit, it leads them to their biological age we realize that the `childhood is eternal, always the same.

   The experience of the school influence his books

Does the experience of the school inspired you in the books you've published?
Certainly. The first contact with the students taught me a lot. He taught me how I should use in the dialog. After there was a kind of social order, a need for information and reading.

It is curious but everyone avoids talking now of a social demand. Maybe It's a phrase that `we should reassess. There are memories blacks who sued us of a certain time.
The truth is that it is a social demand in the sense that every generation has its needs to know, to learn.
Unfortunately it does not always help the youth.

The society offers them what‘s easier, quite spectacular and cheap.
Following we have the impression that he is now a generation more or less superficial reasons as ours, for example. Or on an impression that youth made too many compromises, concessions that she neglects fundamental aspects that she forgets introspections.

That she avoids looking in the mirror inside and finding the features of his true personality.
In reality, children suffer because we, as adults we do not discover their real needs.
I think, getting back to my books and the fact that they also are read by young people and adults that I have discovered what readers want to know how to communicate and ca.

Myself, I have met you for the first time there are more than 27 years. There is so much generations of children `s and` adolescents who have met you before and after me, of course. But the thing that struck me is always this huge capacity you have to start afresh with every child who seems to have literary talent, because you brought a light and you `d has influenced a certain way for hundreds of young people. You could say, generations of journalists and writers `.
Learning is a process of repetition, and "volens nolens" one must respect a didactic ritual with each generation of students `. But it is true that `to avoid monotony and boredom teaching` do you make a continuous effort of renewal. It is almost a gamble to do with each generation of children `,` d always be someone new and remain true to yourself. -It is a performance that brings a career of teaching that of an actor. But the actors create the characters and we, the teachers presented ourselves in the various hypostases, that `there are the better for the generations that followed.

I think it` is the issue of the interdisciplinary that might describe your work.
You've noticed my interest in this perspective. The anthropology teaches us that man is the centre of our universe vibrated around us. The child can understand this universe which surrounds the `only when we make connections, connections of` ideas with things that he knows. All things that are too limited to a restricted area, the upset, are a limit to learning.

                  The literary circle : The Sagittarius.

M. Professor, we are in the Garden Cismigiu `is a sort of heart of the city, here are many students. it is near of the place where you have hosted almost half century, the literary circle The Sagittarius. Nothing has deterred, or pressures, nor the `indifference after the fall of a totalitarian regime, you continue this activity at first hand imperturbable.
The Sagittairius was `one of the most beautiful adventure, and to a certain extent, our tribute that I have made all my teachers, those who have succeeded in then gather the youth and create a literary generation.
Me, I `d` ve done a modest but what I wanted and resurrect the spirit of critical Titu Maiorescu or spirit of Lovinescu in an era in which it `there was not really the taste of `a true poetry.

For those who do not know it should be noted that there were constraints in the years 50-60 and beyond, to the subject of poems, for the form and the spirit behind it. somehow the dictatorial regime has arrived to impose a lot of pressure on newspapers and publishing houses, using the literature of the end of propaganda. But this attempt to break the chains, breaking the horizon is imposed is noticed in two stages: first generation Nichita Stanescu, Cezar Baltag, Marin Sorescu, and after the next generation, the Circle Sagetatorul when all writers succeeded in breathing a full Commission an eaten fresh air.
And they prepared on their ways of thinking, read, write to be receptive, now in an era that allows them free expression.

       Small autobiographical itinerary

Your house is full of proofs of loyalty and trust from all these teenagers, poems, books, manuscripts, and letters from everywhere. Since how many years `children ask you your opinion?
For more than 54 years. When I was still a student I had already organized a literary salon at the Faculty of literature, with the support of Professor Papadima.

It was indeed a disturbing cenacle traveling a bit cenacles official, say with a Marxist approach of the time by those who after 1948 became university professors. But I remember before when I was  in college, I headed a literary circle to the Dealu Monastery near Targoviste.