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Dimitrie Bolintineanu's travel memoirs are one of the largest bodies of work of its kind in the 1848 generation in Romania. During his extended, nine years-long exile abroad, he visited especially the Eastern Mediteranean, always on a quest for culturally and artistically meaningful experiences, but also fulfilling several political or diplomatic m...
Critica literară se face, precum literatura, pentru comunitate. Dar ce proiect de comunitate ne stă în față astăzi, în secolul al XXI‑lea, în locul nostru de pe glob, în lumea postcomunistă, post‑tranziție, post‑imperială și post‑pandemie în care ne aflăm? Pentru ce fel de societate dorim să scriem și cum o putem aduce în ființă? Eseul de față porn...
Pentru a arunca lumină asupra îndelungatei și complicatei tovărășii enunțate în titlul nostru, e util, credem, să pornim de la constatarea unui paradox metodologic: deși convingerea critici-lor, atât în comunism, cât și după 1989, a fost că sub totalitarism literatura a suplinit parțial rolul științelor sociale, aflate atunci sub strict control pol...
In this article I read the postsocialist transition in the frame of several theories of social trauma (Piotr Sztompka, Andreas Hamburger), by focusing particularly on Romanian poetry published during the 2000s. Leaving aside the psychoanalytical definitions of trauma that had at their core the (i) representability of trauma, starting with the new m...
In this article I analyze the novel of transition as a subgenre of contemporary Romanian literature, arguing for its relevance in a discussion of how postcommunist literary works reflect the social reality of their time. Drawing on the notion of subgenre as it was defined by Franco Moretti, I focus on novels written and published in the narrow peri...
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„Pentru o nouă cultură critică românească” este o carte-manifest al cărei obiectiv prim este de a evalua și a transforma cultura critică naţională. Cum, în ce condiţii materiale și cu ce efecte cognitive și politic...
Following the advent of decolonial theory in social and humanistic studies, on the one hand, and in post-Soviet studies, on the other, we submit the genre of the memory novel as a valid instrument of decolonization in the countries of the former Eastern Bloc. Taken as a world genre practiced in the last decades in cultures with a traumatic politica...
Peisajul memorialisticii române a secolului al XIX-lea nu este ușor de trasat. Totuși, importanța acestui sector aparte al literaturii române a fost în mod repetat subliniată 1 ; pe de o parte, pentru abundența ei cantitativă-se scriu mai multe memorii în această perioadă decât proză de ficțiune, iar relatarea de călătorie precedă cu mult romanul s...
Conforming to the norms of its time, Junimea was a literary society made exclusively of men of letters, either poets, prose writers, critics, historians, philologists, ethnologists, sometimes men of (exact) science. The memoirs left behind are written by former members of the society, which they remember fondly, and function as instruments of mythi...
Based on Ilya Kaminsky's poetry volume Deaf Republic (2019), this article aims at placing contemporary disability poetics at the crossroads of modernism and metamodernism. The first part makes an assessment of the modernist poetics of disability created against the background of the prevalent ableist ideology as it is found in the American and Roma...
Cu toate că sintagma "roman al memoriei" are ocurențe relativ numeroase în bibliografia globală a studiilor literare, cu referire la subgenuri narative și autori din spații geografice și culturale îndepărtate și extrem de diferite, 1 până acum majoritatea cercetărilor care își propun să definească și să stabilizeze structural și conceptual acest ge...
The article discusses the condition of literary history at a time of disciplinary crisis, when literary studies appear, globally, to renegotiate their connection to the social and to social sciences. In trying to articulate ways for literary history to incorporate more socially aware concepts in its practice, I turn to two recent proposals by Galin...
This article studies the fictionalization of late Eastern-European socialism in contemporary Romania, namely the literary projection of the 1980s in Mircea Cărtărescu’s autofictional novel Solenoid (2015). The novel is an ample, paranoid, metaphysical, and counterfactual autobiography that uses a late-communist backdrop to create a metaphorically s...
This paper discusses Blecher’s prose, especially his last book, The Illuminated Burrow (1971, written
in 1937-1938), which brings forth a (comparatively) new conception of literature as the space where
fiction and autobiography meet, pursuing a deeper commitment to the “truth” of confession and, in
the process, elaborating a new vision of the human...
In the last four decades, the novel of memory has gained momentum on the world scene, taking advantage of the collapse of colonial and/or dictatorial regimes around the globe. Romania was not an exception, so after the fall of Communism in 1989, and more prominently at the beginning of the new millennium, this subgenre blossomed. Based on quantitat...
This article sets out to critically discuss the promise and challenges of adopting interdisciplinarity in the humanistic disciplines and especially in the postcommunist countries of East-Central Europe. The adoption of methods and concepts from other disciplines is not always an easy task and does not automatically ensure an effective international...
Beyond the History of a Literary Genre: The Encyclopedia of Romanian Memory Writing. The paper presents the theoretical frame of the research project The Encyclopedia of Romanian Memory Writing, currently being developed at the “A. Philippide” Institute for Romanian Philology. This encyclopedia joins other recent projects, such as literary dictiona...
Starting from the awareness of a "biography boom" în todays media landscape, the article discusses the predicament of the literary biography in modern literatures, focusing on the Romanian case. While Romanticism encouraged a philosophically motivated surge in writers' biographies, the modernist spreading of aesthetic autonomy made the practice of...
The problem of identity in Herta Muller's work presents the reader with a number of difficulties. First, there is the complicated mix of Romanian and German (Banat-Swabian, to be precise) culture of the region of this author's upbringing. However, because of her experience of trauma and painful testimonies from a family consumed with guilt during a...
This paper discusses the question of literature represented as a system made of institutions such as writers, critics, literary generations, canonical battles and so on, functioning as a self-regulating mechanism. To put this question into perspective, two literary works are used which both have a metaliterary dimension and both borrow (for fiction...
The ruin motif in literature is often the site of a fierce negotiation of identity, whereby a writer tries to recapture from the past an aspect of national character that seems lost or forgotten. But while internalizing collective anxiety, the writer also enacts his/her own anxiety towards death, personal loss or failure. In 19th century Romantic l...
M. Blecher's 1936 novel, Adventures in the Immediate Unreality, has consituted a literary puzzle for its interwar readers, as well as for much of the criticism of nowadays. It has always been regarded as a mix between a novel of childhood memories and a symbolic narrative bordering the unreal. This situation triggered a reaction of perplexity from...
