Ioan Em. Petrescu’s Correspondence – on the verigo of the literary history archives
Contemporary literary studies focus on literary, cultural or academic figures’ testimonials, in order to develop a modern patrimony of literature. Ioana Em. Petrescu’s archived correspondence, diaries or critical notes provide an interesting opportunity for researchers to observe critic’s ”studio” as well as traces of her daily life. In this way, Ioana Petrescu’s letters from different personalities of the Romanian academic and cultural life, create a complex image of the professor and critic Ioana Petrescu, but also real and authentic depictions of Romanian intellectuals during the communist regime. The letters are historical evidences which deliver a subjective story about private and academic life in the communist era, and in the same time, they are – meta-fictions, due to the subjects contained.
Key words: correspondence, scholars, Romanian literature under communism, history.
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