E. Lovinescu. The art of (not) writing a novel

In the present paper we endeavored to prove that Lovinescu’s artistic creation is generally looked down on as a sort of ‘specimen’ failure; in spite of its quantitative importance, his literature did not meet with the public’s general enthusiasm; on the contrary, putting aside the author’s fame, the scholars kept themselves at bay, being reserved in giving any verdicts. The Genesis of Form… seeks to undo the laboratory experiments of an enigmatic writer who, but for writing it, used to know everything about literature. Thus, the book does not represent, in a restrictive way, an instance of genetic criticism, prone to locate and restore only the pre-publication variants. On the contrary, it aims to inquest – in a complex and subtle manner, at the same time – the issue of subjective taste, which should have determined the evolution and aesthetics of literary forms along the prose writer’s biographic course.
Keywords: biography, melodrama, cyclic novel, erotic psychology, creativity

I.E. Lovinescu, Opere / Works, edited by Maria Simionescu
and Alexandru George, Bucharest: “Minerva” Publishing
House, 1982-1992
E. Lovinescu, Scrieri / Writings, edited by Eugen Simion,
Bucharest: “Minerva” Publishing House, 1969-1982
E. Lovinescu, Bizu, edited by Marian Papahagi, Cluj-Napoca:
“Dacia” Publishing House, 1974.
E. Lovinescu, Firu’n patru / Hairsplitting, Bucharest:
“Naţionala Ciornei” Publishing House, 1933.
E. Lovinescu, Diana, Bucharest: “Socec&Co” Publishing
House S.A., 1934.
E. Lovinescu, „Sburătorul”. Agende literare / “Sburătorul”.
Literary agendae, edited by Monica Lovinescu & Gabriela
Omăt, vol. I-VI, Bucharest: “Minerva” Publishing House,
1993-2002.
II
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Melodrama & the Mode of Excess, New Haven & London:
Yale University Press, 1976
Ioan Holban, Proza criticilor. Lovinescu. Ibrăileanu / The prose
of the literary critic. Lovinescu. Ibrăileanu, Bucharest:
“Minerva” Publishing House, 1983
Ligia Tudurachi, Cuvintele care ucid. Memorie literară în romanele
lui E. Lovinescu / The words that kill. Literary memory in E.
Lovinescu’s novels, Cluj-Napoca: “Limes” Publishing House,
2010.

Ştefan Aug. Doinaş: Emendations and New Information Consideration about His Debut

The study is focused upon Ştefan Aug. Doinaş’s debut in periodicals, before and after joining the young intellectual group Cercul Literar de la Sibiu (“from”). We aim to emendate and append Mircea Popa’s study “Începuturile literare ale lui Ştefan Aug. Doinaş” (“The Literary Beginnings of Ştefan Aug. Doinaş”). Besides, it is our intention to bring a few completions to the monographic research elaborated by Diana Ioana Ureche in “Poezia lui Ştefan Aug. Doinaş: modernitate şi clasicitate” (“Ştefan Aug. Doinaş’s Poetry: Modernity and Classicisms”). Moreover, we include the results of our own investigations, which are related to the publications: “Viaţa românească” (“Romanian Life”), “Albatros” (“Albatross”), “Vremea” (“The Age”), “Carpaţii” (“The Carpathians”) and “Pagini literare” (“Literary Pages”). Although not quite significant to the writer’s career, these rediscovered texts give new clues about his evolution, projects and manner of conceiving poetry in the time he had not begun composing his extraordinary ballads. One can assist to an unexpected change, from a naïve and picturesque author to a very attentive and inventive artisan. Little of the pieces we rediscovered in review were ever published into the author’s volumes. Thus, one might say we confront with a sort of unedited poems, because some of them were reshaped through years.
Keywords: Ştefan Aug. Doinaş, debut, emendations, new information, periodicals, Cercul Literar de la Sibiu (“Literary Circle from Sibiu”), Direcţia Generală a Poliţiei de Siguranţă (“The General Directorate of Safety Police”) Mircea Popa, Diana Ioana Ureche

• Ştefan Augustin Doinaş, Evocări / Evocations, Bucureşti, Editura Fundaţiei Pro, 2003.
• Ştefan Aug. Doinaş, Poezii din tinereţe/ Youth Poems, ediţie îngrijită şi postfaţată de Mircea Popa, Oradea, Biblioteca Revistei „Familia”, 2005.
• Templul memoriei. Ştefan Aug. Doinaş în dialog cu Emil Şimăndan / The temple of memory. Ştefan Aug. Doinaş in dialogue with Emil Şimăndan, Arad, Fundaţia Culturală, „Ioan Slavici”, 1998.
• Mircea Popa, Începuturile literare ale lui Ştefan Aug. Doinaş / The Literary Beginnings of Ştefan Aug. Doinaş, în Familia / The Family, seria a V-a, anul 41 (141), nr. 3 (472), martie 2005.
• Diana Ioana Ureche, Poezia lui Ştefan Aug. Doinaş: modernitate şi clasicitate/ Ştefan Aug. Doinaş’s Poetry: Modernity and Classicisms, Timişoara, Editura
  Universităţii de Vest, 2011.
• Dosar/ Dossier I 2628, fond operativ / operational fund, vol. 1, la C.N.S.A.S / The National Council for studying the Security Archives.
• Dosar/ Dossier I 120450, fond informativ / informative fund, vol. 1, la C.N.S.A.S / The National Council for studying the Security Archives.
• Dosar/ Dossier D 012694, fond documentar / documentary fund, vol. 7, la C.N.S.A.S / The National Council for studying the Security Archives.
• Dosar/ Dossier R 874, fond reţea / net fund, vol. 1, la C.N.S.A.S. / The National Council for studying the Security Archives.

Quasi una monografia

The present study is an analysis of the second edition of the monograph dedicated by the late Sibiu-based critic Ilie Guţan tot the Literary Circle from Sibiu. Much ampler than the first one, it contains two unpublished chapters (an extended one analyzing Radu Stanca’s activity as poetry reviewer, plus another one regarding Radu Stanca’s plays), some other chapter published in the Euphorion magazine, as well as in the volume entitled Kaleidscope (2003), completing the study with important contributions regarding Ştefan Aug. Doinaş, Nicolae Balotă and Ion D. Sîrbu, and with a much more explicit contextualization of the group’s ideas and of the critical posterity of the Literary Circle from Sibiu. Compared with the volume from 1995, which gave the impression of a cumulative project gathering texts published in various periods and magazines (as the author himself shows at the end of each chapter), the present edition represents a solid monograph, much more coherent than the previous one, adding some series of elucidations essential to the bibliography of the Literary Circle from Sibiu and its members.
Keywords: the Literary Circle from Sibiu, monograph, Ilie Guţan, Radu Stanca, I. Negoiţescu

Zoe Dumitrescu-Buşulenga or about “the risks” of the (eminescian) biography: from likelihood to fiction. Limits and interpretative
deconstructions

Biography as a literary genre is always an exciting and challenging subject, but in the same time quite “fragile” and risky. Our explanations are due to a weakness of the author who cannot “harmonize” perfectly, naturally, in an authentic literary vision, both the verisimilitude of the experienced facts/actions with the narrated or evoked ones. Therefore, biography is situated frequently on the verge of a precipice, adopting, consequently, an unsure, unstable or a “delicate” method of writing which generates the impossibility of the reader to distinguish: how much is truth and how much is fiction in the “act of reading”?
Keywords: Biography, Likelihood (Verisimilitude), Fiction, “Matrix-space”, “Stylistic Determinatives”, “Anonymous powers”, Creative expiatio

• Băileşteanu, Fănuş, Eminescogonie (Eminescogony), în revista ,,Steaua”, XXVIII, nr. 1, ianuarie, 1977.
• Blaga, Lucian, Isvoade (Isvoade). Eseuri, conferinţe, articole. Ediţie îngrijită de Dorli Blaga şi Petre Nicolau. Prefaţă de George Gană, Bucureşti, Editura Minerva, 1972.
• Blaga, Lucian, Trilogia culturii. Orizont şi stil. Spaţiu mioritic. Geneza metaforei şi sensul culturii (The trilogy of culture. Horizon and style. Mioritical space. The genesis of metaphor and the meaning of culture). Cuvânt înainte de Dumitru Ghişe, Bucureşti, Editura pentru Literatură Universală, 1969.
• Blaga, Lucian, Zări şi etape ( Horizons and stages). Aforisme, studii, însemnări, Bucureşti, Editura Humanitas, 2003.
• Bot, Ioana, Literatura: figură şi discurs (Literature: figure and discourse), curs ţinut la Facultatea de Litere, Universitatea ,,Babeş-Bolyai” din Cluj-Napoca, anul I, semestrul I, studii masterale, specializarea Studii literare româneşti, anul universitar 2008/2009.
• Buşulenga-Dumitrescu, Zoe, Mihai Eminescu. Creaţie şi cultură (Mihai Eminescu. Creation and culture). Ediţie revăzută şi adăugită, Bucureşti, Editura Doina, 2000.
• Buşulenga-Dumitrescu, Zoe, Eminescu. Viaţă. Creaţie. Cultură (Eminescu. Life. Creation. Culture), Bucureşti, Editura Eminescu, 1989.
• Caillois, Roger, L’écriture des pierres (The writing of stones), Flammarion, Champs, Paris, 1970.
• Călinescu, George, Viaţa lui Mihai Eminescu (Mihai Eminescu’s life), Bucureşti, Editura Minerva, 1986.
• Chevalier, Jean; Gheerbrant, Alain, Dicţionar de simboluri (Dictionary of symbols), vol. 3, P-Z, Bucureşti, Editura Artemis, 1993.
• Cioculescu, Şerban, Eminescu – cultură şi creaţie (Eminescu – culture and creation), în revista ,,România literară”, X, nr. 5, 3 februarie, 1977.
• Cordoş, Sanda, Curs de Poetică (Poetics course), ţinut la Facultatea de Litere, Universitatea ,,Babeş-Bolyai” din Cluj-Napoca, anul III, semestrul I, Română A, anul universitar 2007/2008.
• Curticăpeanu, Doina, Curs de Istoria literaturii române. Perioada veche (History of Romanian Literature Course. Ancient period), ţinut la Facultatea de Litere, Universitatea ,,Babeş-Bolyai” din Cluj-Napoca, anul I, semestrul I, Română A, anul universitar 2005/2006.
• Deleuze, Gilles, Nietzsche (Nietzsche). Traducere, note şi postfaţă de Bogdan Ghiu, Bucureşti, Editura All, 1999.
• Eminescu, Mihai, Mă topesc în flăcări: Dialoguri cu eminescologi în perspectiva mileniului III (I melt in flames: Dialogues with «eminescologs» regarding the 3rd millennium), vol. VIII. Interviuri realizate de Mihai Cimpoi. Ediţia a II-a revăzută şi adăugită. Cuvânt introductiv de dr. prof. Constantin Ciopraga, Chişinău-Bucureşti,
  Editura Litera-David, 2000.
• Grigurcu, Gheorghe, Zoe Dumitrescu-Buşulenga – Eminescu şi romantismul german (Zoe Dumitrescu-Buşulenga – Eminescu and the germanic romanticism), în revista ,,Familia”, XXII, nr. 12, decembrie, 1986.
• Mihăilă, Silviu, Scrisoare din arhiva personală (Letter from the personal archive), expediată de Zoe Dumitrescu-Buşulenga, 08.04.2005, Bucureşti.
• Mihăilă, Silviu, Zoe Dumitrescu-Buşulenga: Repere biografice identitare-Blajul în conştiinţa eminesciană (Zoe Dumitrescu-Buşulenga: Identity biographical landmarks – Blaj city in Eminescu’s consciousness), ,,Atitudini”, rubrica Prieteni cu Atitudini, publicaţie editată de Casa de Cultură ,,I. L. Caragiale” a Municipiului Ploieşti, anul VII, nr. 2 (31), aprilie-iunie, 2009. Noica, Constantin, Sentimentul românesc al fiinţei (The Romanian sentiment of Being), Bucureşti, Editura Eminescu, 1978. Papahagi, Marian; SASU, Aurel; Zaciu, Mircea (coord.),
• Dicţionarul esenţial al scriitorilor români (The essential dictionary of the Romanian writers), Bucureşti, Editura Albatros, 2002.
• Petrescu. Em., Ioana, Configuraţii (Configurations). Ediţia a II-a, Cluj-Napoca, Editura Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă, 2002.
• Simion, Eugen (coord.), Dicţionarul general al literaturii române (The general dictionary of Romanian literature), vol. II C/D, Bucureşti, Editura Univers Enciclopedic, 2004.
• Ştefănescu, Alex, Istoria literaturii române contemporane: 1941-2000 (History of Romanian contemporary literature), Bucureşti, Editura Maşina de Scris, 2005.
• Vârgolici, Teodor, Două cărţi despre Eminescu (Two books about Eminescu), în revista ,,Luceafărul”, VII, nr. 4, 15 februarie, 1964.
• Vlad, Ion, Glosse eminesciene (Eminescian gloss), în revista ,,Tribuna”, XXI, nr. 3, 20 ianuarie, 1977.
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Eminescu and the History Adventure

The paper analyzes the novel Parallel Lives, by Florina Ilis within the framework of a century of influence of Eminescu. The writing distinguishes the contributions of the author referring to the biographical returning prose by utilizing documents accompanying the literature, ,,juxtaposition of many points of view”, and imagining scenes and stories about the life and work of Mihai Eminescu. In parallel there is evidence of the destructive Catilinar spirit as a product of the transition periods and sign of the decline of the meanings and manners in this part of the world
Keywords: novel, biographical fantasy, Mihai Eminescu, Veronica Micle, Florina Ilis, Catilinars, romanticism

• Florina Ilis, Vieţile paralele / Parallel lives, roman, Editura Cartea Românească, 2012.
• Mihai Eminescu, Opere / Works, vol. I – XVII, ed. by Perspessicius (cont. by Dimitrie Vatamaniuc and Petru Creţia), Bucureşti, Fundaţia pentru Literatură
  şi Artă „Regele Carol II” (and then the Romanian Academy), 1939, 1943, 52, 1958, 1963, 1977, 1980, 1983, 1985, 1987,1989, 1993,1999.
• Mihai Eminescu, Opere / Works, vol. I-VII, ed. by D. Vatamaniuc, pref. by Eugen Simion, Poezii(I); Proză. Teatru. Literatură populară(II); Publicistică. Corespondenţă. Fragmentarium(III), Publicistică (IV), Publicistică (V), Dicţionar de rime. Traduceri. Transcrieri. Note de curs. Note  de lectură. Excerpte. Corespondenţă (VI), Traduceri. Transcrieri. Note de curs. Note de lectură. Excerpte (VII), Bucureşti, Editura Univers Enciclopedic, 1999, 2000,
  2003.
• Şerban Cioculescu, Aspecte literare contemporane / Contemporary literary aspects, 1932-1947, Bucureşti, Editura Minerva, 1972, art. Eminescu văzut de romancieri / Eminescu seen by novelists, pp. 329-342.
• Bogdan Creţu, Utopia negativă în literatura română / Negative utopia in Romanian literature, Bucureşti, Editura Cartea Românească, 2008.
• Ion Simuţ, Revizuiri / Revisions, Bucureşti, Editura Fundaţiei Culturale Române, 1995, cap. Mitul biografic eminescian. Un mod de a fi în lume / Eminescian biographic myth. A mode of being in the world, pp. 15-25. Rodica Zafiu, Naraţiune şi poezie / Narrative and poetry, Bucureşti, Editura BIC ALL, 2000.
• Ioan Derşidan, Monologul dramatic eminescian / The Eminescian dramatic monologue, Cluj Napoca, Editura Dacia, 2001.
• Ioan Derşidan, Clasicii junimişti şi învăţământul / The „Junimea” classics and education, Bucureşti, Editura Didactică şi Pedagogică, 2000.
• Ioan Derşidan, Catilinari şi temperatori. Eminescu şi Caragiale / Catilinaries and temperators. Eminescu and Caragiale, Cluj Napoca, Editura Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă, 2010.

Ion Pop and “the unmistakable voices” of poetry

Ion Pop professes a type of literary criticism which is particularly interested in the “profound sensibility”, in the “unmistakable voice” of a writer, and this makes him an allied of the interpretative techniques of the . The focus on the existentialist core of literature has naturally led him towards a thematist lecture, the critic being constantly able to resonate with the literary text and to suffer from the contamination of the text. Ion Pop’s critical concept incorporates suggestions from Starobinski’s “critical trajectory” especially through the implying axiological judgement and ”the significant coherence”, through the synthetic interpretation of some of the most protean writers. Having a fundamentally modernist sensibility which organises the discourse around concepts as “vital engagement” or “profound existential significance”, Ion Pop has written about a series of poets, from vanguardists to the generation “two thousand”, his attention centred, on one hand, explicitly, on the binomial “literature – existence” and, on the other hand, implicitly, on the “elegiac background” of the literature he analyses. Having such expectations, the happiest encounter could only be the one with the poetry of the 60’s and than with the poetry of the Equinox. The Generation of the 80s gives the critic intellectual satisfaction, while the “generation two thousands” writers are met with serious reserves, caused by their noise and fury, by their excessive hedonism and nihilism, by their epidermal and visceral neo-expressionism.
Keywords: contemporary Romanian literature, literary criticism, existential dimension, thematism, critical trajectory,
modernism, (neo)avanguard, synthetic vision

• Ion Pop, Poezia unei generaţii / The Poetry of a Generation, Ed. Dacia, Cluj, 1973.
• Ion Pop, Nichita Stănescu – spaţiul şi măştile poeziei / Nichita Stanescu – The Space and the Masks of Poetry, Ed. Albatros, Bucureşti, 1980.
• Ion p, Jocul poeziei / The Play of Poetry, Ed. Cartea românească, Bucureşti, 1985.
• Ion Pop, Pagini transparente/ Transparent Pages, Ed. Dacia, Cluj, 1997.
• Ion Pop, Lecturi fragmentare / Fragmentary lectures, Ed.Eminescu, Bucureşti, 1983.
• Ion Pop, Gellu Naum. Poezia contra literaturii / Gellu Naum. Poetry against Literature, Ed. Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă, Cluj, 2001.
• Ion Pop, Viaţă şi texte / Life and Texts, Ed. Dacia, Cluj, 2001.

On ‘East-ethic’ Revisionism and ‘Aesthetic Autonomy’ in Post-December Literary Press (I)

The contemporary critical scene has witnessed the conflictive phenomenon of literary revisions approached through two different ways: the ethic approach and the aesthetic one. If the revisionist perspective has postulated the importance
of the moral criterion as the basic rule of re-reading, the ‘autonomist’ critique takes into consideration the inner value of the writing despite of the ‘moral profile’ of its author. The debate enhances two ways of re-considering the ‘culprit’ texts of the totalitarian period as well as the notion of ‘iconic’ writer.
Keywords: revisionist drive, ethical ideology, ‘aesthetic autonomy’, iconic writer, literary canon, ‘collaborationist’ text

• Borza, Cosmin, Întoarcerea estetismului [The Revival of Aesthetics]. În Vatra, nr. 7-8, 2009.
• Borza, Sorin. Despre intelectualii din Est şi noua cultură a consensului [On Eastern Intellectuals and the New Culture of Consensus]. În Familia, nr. 11-12, 2010.
• Cesereanu, Ruxandra. Aiud la Veneţia [Aiud at Venice]. În România literară, nr. 42 / 25.10-31.10. 2000.
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• Grigurcu, Gheorghe. Critică şi revizuire [Critique and Revisions]. În România literară, nr.8/ 4 martie, 1998a.
• Grigurcu, Gheorghe. Despre negaţie [On Negation]. În România literară, nr.27/ 8 iulie, 1998 b.
• Grigurcu, Gheorghe. Un enfant terrible: Alexandru George (I) [An enfant terrible: Alexandru George (I)]. În România literară, nr. 37 / 16 septembrie, 1998 c.
• Grigurcu, Gheorghe, G. Călinescu, la centenar. [G. Calinescu at His Centenary]. În România literară, nr. 24/16 iunie 1999.
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• Grigurcu, Gheorghe. Actualitatea unui manifest [A Contemporary Manifesto]. În România literară, nr. 42/25.10- 31.10.2000 c.
• Grigurcu, Gheorghe. „Sechelele epocii comuniste, aidoma unor viruşi perfizi” [The Communist Ghosts – Some Vicious Viruses].În Viaţa românească, nr. 3-4/martie-aprilie, 2007a.
• Grigurcu, Gheorghe. De la vechi la nou şi înapoi [From Old to New and Back]. În Viaţa românească, nr. 8-9, 2007 b.
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A monograph of loneliness and feminity

The present study attempts to offer an in-depth analysis of Nicole Valery Grossu, who is under investigation in the period of communism. This study also deals with the description of the system, the transfiguration of suffering, which is the most important effect of life after prison. Telling her experience, Nicole Valery Grossu compares this with a mystical experience. She manages to describe daily prison life, in a story that impresses. Nicole Valery Grossu confesses his mystical experience with a touch of originality and subjectivity. Her book, Bless you, prison…, expresses the feelings of political prisoners in prison memoirs. The purpose of these confessions is to transmit feelings and teachings of the experience to the future generations.
Keywords: investigation, memory, arrest, archives, prison

• Barcan, Doina, Bogdan Sterpu, Regimul Comunist în
  România, decembrie 1947-decembrie 1989 / The communist
  regime in Romania between december 1947- december 1989,
  Iaşi, Editura Institutul European, 2003.
• Cesereanu, Ruxandra, Călătorie spre centru infernului.
  Gulagul în conştiinţa românească / Journey to the Center of
  Hell. The Gulag in the Romanian Modern Conscience,
  Bucureşti, Editura Fundaţiei Culturale Române,
  1998.
• Grossu, Nicole Valery, Binecuvântată fii, închisoare…, /
  Bless you, prison…, Bucureşti, Editura Univers, 2002
• Ioniţoiu, Cicerone, Nicole Valery Grossu, O lumină în bezna
  exilului românesc, / Nicole Valery Grossu, A light in the
  darkness of the Romanian exile, Bucureşti, Editura
  Fundaţia culturală ,,Memoria”, 1997
• Jean-Jacques Marie, Gulagul, The Gulag, Bucureşti,
  Editura Corint, 2001
• Manolescu, Ion, Literatura Memorialistică, The memoirs
  literature, Bucureşti, Editura Humanitas, 1996
• Mihăilescu, Dan C., Literatura română în postceauşism.
  Memorialistica sau trecutul ca reumanizare / Romanian
  Literature in ,,postceauşism”. Memoirs, or the past like
  re-humanization ,Editura Polirom, Bucureşti, 2004
• Eugen Negrici, Literatura română sub comunism / Romanian
  literature in communism, Bucureşti, Editura Fundaţiei
  PRO, 2002
• Săndulescu, Alexandru, Întoarcere în timp. Memorialişti
  români / Back in time. Romanian memoirs, Editura
  Muzeul Naţional al Literaturii Române, Bucureşti,
  2008.
• Selejan, Ana, Literatura în totalitarism 1952-1953 / The
  literature in totalitarianism 1952-1953, Sibiu, Editura
  Thausib, 1995.