👤Author Name: George LețuAffiliation: Drd. la Universitatea din Bucureşti 📄Article Citation Recommendation: LEȚU, George. „Doamnele diplomaţiei româneşti: Elena Văcărescu (1864–1937)”. In: RITL, New Series, VI, No. 1-4, January-December 2012, p. 211–234Titlul: DOAMNELE DIPLOMAŢIEI ROMÂNEŞTI: ELENA VĂCĂRESCU (1864–1937)Title: THE LADIES OF ROMANIAN DIPLOMACY: ELENA VĂCĂRESCU (1864–1937)Pages: 211–234Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2012/14_G_Letu.pdf Abstract: Elena Văcărescu, worthy successor of patriot noblemen, has fulfilled the testament-impulse, received from her illustrious predecessor, Ienăchiţă Văcărescu, to contribute to “the honoring of the country”. The French language, sister of her native language, facilitated the entry, with greater ease, into the broad European environment, of thoughts, unrests, and hopes of the Romanian nation. A witness to the foundation of the League of Nations, Elena Văcărescu dreamed of establishing a universal harmony in which Romania will have a well-deserved place. Keywords: Elena Văcărescu, cultural diplomacy, Romanian history, diaspora Bibliography: Andronescu Alexandra, Elena Văcărescu – poetă a sufletului românesc în limba franceză, „Archiva Valachica. Studii şi material de istorie şi istorie a culturii”, Târgovişte, 1976. Arhiva Ministerului Afacerilor Externe, Problema 77, Dosar „Elena Văcărescu”. Iorga, Nicolae, Două poete de sânge românesc în Franţa: Elena Văcărescu şi Anna de Noailles, în „Universul literar”, duminică, 28 iunie 1925. Din amintirile Elencuţei Văcărescu, Bucureşti, Editura…

👤Author Name: Mihaela AlbuAffiliation: Facultatea de Litere, Universitatea din Craiova 📄Article Citation Recommendation: ALBU, Mihaela. „Mircea Popescu şi corespondenţii săi: Ştefan Baciu, N. P. Comnen, Neagu Djuvara, Mircea Eliade, Vintilă Horia, Virgil Ierunca, Petru Iroaie, Alexandrina Mititelu”. In: RITL, New Series, VI, No. 1-4, January-December 2012, p. 187–209Titlul: MIRCEA POPESCU ŞI CORESPONDENŢII SĂI: ŞTEFAN BACIU, N. P. COMNEN, NEAGU DJUVARA, MIRCEA ELIADE, VINTILĂ HORIA, VIRGIL IERUNCA, PETRU IROAIE, ALEXANDRINA MITITELUTitle: MIRCEA POPESCU AND HIS CORRESPONDENTS: ŞTEFAN BACIU, N.P. COMNEN, NEAGU DJUVARA, MIRCEA ELIADE, VINTILĂ HORIA, VIRGIL IERUNCA, PETRU IROAIE, ALEXANDRINA MITITELUPages: 187–209Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2012/13_M_Albu.pdf Abstract: Mircea Popescu was a professor, literary critic and journalist who lived almost all his life in exile, in Italy, where he promoted the Romanian culture permanently. He has a very rich correspondence with Ștefan Baciu, N.P. Comnen, Neagu Djuvara, Mircea Eliade, Vintilă Horia, Virgil Ierunca, Petru Iroaie and Alexandrina Mititelu. Due to his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Simona Coleş-Popescu, we’ll include some unpublished letters sent by his friends and Romanian writers in a book dedicated to Mircea Popescu’s literary activity. In this article we publish two of them. Keywords: Mircea Popescu, unpublished letters, intellectual friendship, Romanian culture and identity

👤Author Name: Simona AntofiAffiliation: Universitatea „Dunărea de Jos”, Galaţi 📄Article Citation Recommendation: ANTOFI, Simona. „Jurnalul berlinez al Norei Iuga – o ego-grafie sui generis”. In: RITL, New Series, VI, No. 1-4, January-December 2012, p. 181–186Titlul: JURNALUL BERLINEZ AL NOREI IUGA – O EGO-GRAFIE SUI GENERISTitle: THE BERLIN JOURNAL OF NORA IUGA – A “SUI-GENERIS EGO-GRAPHY”Pages: 181–186Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2012/12_S_Antofi.pdf Abstract: Nora Iuga’s diary written in Berlin displays an ego-graphic construction within which the spatial profile of the city – the great love of the author herself – is re-shaped through a discourse that voices the experience of facing the West, the identity and the meaning of the writer’s status, her feelings, enthusiasm and life. Thus, the text is punctually redefined according to the ever transforming ego whose identity is mirrored in the writing itself. Used as a compatibility mechanism to reality, ‘reading oneself’ by means of the feelings experienced by the ‘wanderer’ in the great city (who, by the way, has Latin blood) means that the text enhances subjective marks defined as basic mechanism of living, also in the real world. Keywords: Intimate diary, ego’ themes, subjectivity, authorial identity, alterity Bibliography: Dondorici, Iulia, Experienţa berlineză a Norei Iuga, în „Observator cultural”,…

👤Author Name: Sorin IvanAffiliation: Facultatea de Științe Sociale, Politice și Umaniste, Universitatea Titu Maiorescu; Facultatea de Limbi și Literaturi Străine, Universitatea din București 📄Article Citation Recommendation: IVAN, Sorin. „Exilul «concentraţionar» şi poezia ca libertate”. In: RITL, New Series, VI, No. 1-4, January-December 2012, p. 171–179Titlul: EXILUL „CONCENTRAŢIONAR” ŞI POEZIA CA LIBERTATETitle: THE “CONCENTRATION CAMP” EXILE AND THE POETRY THAT STANDS FOR LIBERTYPages: 171–179Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2012/11_S_Ivan.pdf Abstract: In Ion Caraion’s poetry, exile is, more than a poetic theme, a reality of the human being, an ontological state. This existential condition appears in a number of essential hypostases in his poetic universe: the concentrationary exile, the political exile, the geographical exile, the moral exile, the linguistic exile, the aesthetic exile, and the last exile, the Non-being. In such a context, we can talk about the exile poetry and the poetry exile in Caraion’s work, in a world as a vast prison, in an absurd universe, subject to death, in which man lives the condition of an exiled and of a victim, in which even words agonise. Ion Caraion is the exiled poet of Romanian literature. A form of exile is the concentrationary exile, in an era of terror, during the installation of…

👤Author Name: Pavel ŢuguiAffiliation: Institutul de Istorie și Teorie Literară „G. Călinescu” al Academiei Române 📄Article Citation Recommendation: ŢUGUI, Pavel. „Eugen Barbu: debut editorial surprinzător şi controversat (1955–1960)”. In: RITL, New Series, VI, No. 1-4, January-December 2012, p. 129–169Titlul: EUGEN BARBU: DEBUT EDITORIAL SURPRINZĂTOR ŞI CONTROVERSAT (1955–1960)Title: EUGEN BARBU: SURPRISING AND DEBATED EDITORIAL DEBUT (1955-1960)Pages: 129–169Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2012/10_P_Tugui.pdf Abstract: The article aims at presenting a detailed picture of the Romanian literary life of the (mid to late) ’50s and correcting particular details concerning the debut of Eugen Barbu (1924–1993), Romanian journalist and prose writer, a disputed literary figure of the Communist era. The author puts forward some critical remarks on Mihai Ungheanu’s work of editing the texts of Eugen Barbu, drawing attention upon the errors this editor has done, purposely or unknowingly. He offers further information about the context in which the novel Groapa (The Pit) was published and new data on the project of another novel written by Eugen Barbu, Calea Negustorilor (The Traders’ Route). The author of the article, as a direct participant in the literary and cultural life of that time, gives the perspective of an insider when he relates the events connected with the life and…

👤Author Name: Gabriela IliuţăAffiliation: Universitatea „Spiru Haret”, București 📄Article Citation Recommendation: ILIUŢĂ, Gabriela. „Elemente de identitate românească în opera lui Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu”. In: RITL, New Series, VI, No. 1-4, January-December 2012, p. 113–128Titlul: ELEMENTE DE IDENTITATE ROMÂNEASCĂ ÎN OPERA LUI CONSTANTIN VIRGIL GHEORGHIUTitre: ELÉMENTS D’IDENTITÉ ROUMAINE DANS L’ŒUVRE DE CONSTANTIN VIRGIL GHEORGHIUPages: 113–128Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2012/9_G_Iliuta.pdf Résumé: Les éléments de la spiritualité roumaine traversent le monde romanesque de Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu: le terroir, la religion orthodoxe, la liberté, les Tracs, les haïdouks, les montagnards, le château, l’oppresseur, le bidonville etc. Les traducteurs de ses premiers livres ont gardé tels quels les culturèmes pour maintenir la richesse des connotations relatives au peuple roumain, si importantes pour la compréhension des livres de Gheorghiu. A travers la mémoire, l’écrivain exilé a voulu garder intactes les valeurs qu’il s’était appropriées dans son pays natal. Pour lui, son village, Fântâna, représente locus amoenus – lieu des délices – et signe culturel primaire et distinctif. Qu’il ait écrit des mémoires ou des fictions, Gheorghiu a raconté son histoire où s’est reflété l’Histoire, plus ou moins romancé, de son siècle, se révélant, à notre avis, un des plus importants représentants du genre autobiographique dans les lettres roumaines….

👤Author Name: Antonio PatrașAffiliation: Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza”, Iaşi 📄Article Citation Recommendation: PATRAȘ, Antonio. „Modelul şi oglinda. E. Lovinescu «par lui même»”. In: RITL, New Series, VI, No. 1-4, January-December 2012, p. 97–112Titlul: MODELUL ŞI OGLINDA. E. LOVINESCU „PAR LUI MÊME”Title: THE MODEL AND THE MIRROR. E. LOVINESCU “PAR LUI MÊME”Pages: 97–112Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2012/8_A_Patras.pdf Abstract: E. Lovinescu received his due acknowledgment as the main representative of the Romanian inter-bellum culture. His aesthetic criticism pleaded for the necessary modernization of our literature, by means of imitating salient Western models. Although his image in posterity represents a conglomerate of mere clichés, the critic proves to be, under close-scrutiny, a complex theorist (even though, quite often, a rather contradictory one). He aimed to assess literature from a psycho[1]sociological point of view and to articulate a consistent theory on personality, with a particular focus on those processes that recur during our inner development. The branded ‘theory of forms without content’ served Lovinescu as a marvelous hypothesis to assess the emergence of Romanian modern civilization. Therefore, the critic’s coherent program hinted at the modernization of Romanian literature, centered upon theories such as ‘the primate of aesthetical value’ and the urge for ‘synchronization’. In any case,…

👤Author Name: Paul CernatAffiliation: Universitatea din Bucureşti 📄Article Citation Recommendation: CERNAT, Paul. „Existențialismul românesc”. In: RITL, New Series, VI, No. 1-4, January-December 2012, p. 89–96Titlul: EXISTENȚIALISMUL ROMÂNESCTitle: ROMANIAN EXISTENTIALISMPages: 89–96Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2012/7_P_Cernat.pdf Abstract: The article presents the Existentialism, as a trend of the modern thought, and it is mainly focused on the literary manifestations of this perspective. It offers definitional issues and background, it clarifies the concepts associated with Existentialism, and it goes into the history of this literary movement with reference to its representatives worldwide and in Romanian culture and literature. Romanian Existentialism is rigorously described from its very beginnings with the Criterion group in the 20s: there are few Existentialisms identified in the Romanian culture and a special attention is given to the main tendencies and to the characteristics of the literary works associated with Existentialism in the 30s and 40s (when we had the so-called “war generation”). After the Second World War, when Existentialism became a well-known and significant philosophical and cultural movement in the world, we may also talk about Existentialism as present in the creation of few Romanian writers reviewed in this article. Keywords: Existentialism, existential literature, Criterion group, war generation Bibliography: Emil Cioran, Opere…

👤Author Name: Nicoleta SălcudeanuAffiliation: Institutul de Cercetări Socio-Umane „Gh. Şincai” al Academiei Române, Cluj-Napoca 📄Article Citation Recommendation: SĂLCUDEANU, Nicoleta. „Literatura exilului”. In: RITL, New Series, VI, No. 1-4, January-December 2012, p. 73–88Titlul: LITERATURA EXILULUITitle: LITERATURE OF EXILEPages: 73–88Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2012/6_N_Salcudeanu.pdf Abstract: The article opens with a short history of the Romanian literary exile. Then it focuses on the specificities of the Romanian exile after the World War II: the long duration of it, the loss of hope for returning to the natal country, the multiple reasons for (self)-exile, grouping around polarity centers such as radios, magazines, literary circles, etc., the small number of dissidents and the fact that the Romanian exile did not promoted Romanian literature for the foreign countries, but limited itself to address exclusively to Romanians for a political purpose. A detailed analysis is dedicated to the cultural pillars with real impact on the Romanian exile (cultural societies and literary circles, literary and cultural newspapers published, Free Europe Radio Post, dissidents). Important institutions of exile are also described: Romanian Center for Researches in Paris, “Carol I” Royal University Foundation in Paris, Romanian Library in Freiburg, Romanian Academic Society in Roma, Romanian-Spanish Foundation in Madrid, The American Romanian Academy…

S U M A R EDITORIALAcad. Eugen SIMION, Moralistul Creangă / 7 INTERVIUAcad. Alexandru ZUB, ,,Naţiunea e un produs organic a cărui istorie, cu toate convulsiile inerente, merită atenţia noastră şi în epoca globalizării” / 25 DOCUMENTCarmen BRĂGARU, Ion Pillat – de la vilegiaturist la rezident al Balcicului / 33 FIȘE DE DICȚIONARIon SIMUȚ, Liviu Rebreanu / 45Ioana DRĂGAN, Romanul popular / 61Nicoleta SĂLCUDEANU, Literatura exilului / 73Paul CERNAT, Existențialismul românesc / 89 SCRIITORI ROMÂNIAntonio PATRAȘ, Modelul şi oglinda. E. Lovinescu „par lui même” / 97Gabriela ILIUȚĂ, Elemente de identitate românească în opera lui Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu / 113Pavel ŢUGUI, Eugen Barbu: debut editorial surprinzător şi controversat (1955–1960) / 129Sorin IVAN, Exilul „concentraţionar” şi poezia ca libertate / 171Simona ANTOFI, Jurnalul berlinez al Norei Iuga – o „ego-grafie sui generis” / 181 CORESPONDENȚĂMircea Popescu și corespondenții săi: Ștefan Baciu, N. P. Comnen, Neagu Djuvara, Mircea Eliade, Vintilă Horia, Virgil Ierunca, Petru Iroaie, Alexandrina Mititelu, (prezentare de Mihaela ALBU) / 187 DOSARGeorge LEȚU, Doamnele diplomaţiei româneşti: Elena Văcărescu (1864–1937) / 211 STUDIICrina BUD, Critica literară versus critica culturală. Legitimări ale literaturii române ca literatură europeană / 235Ioana REVNIC, Lumea romanului românesc (1965–1989). Locuri şi timpuri / 251Alina CRIHANĂ, Memorie, istorie, identitate:…