👤Author Name: Garofeanu DorinAffiliation: C.S. III, Institutul de Istorie și Teorie Literară „G. Călinescu” al Academiei RomâneContact: dgarofeanu@hotmail.com 📄Article Citation Recommendation: GAROFEANU, Dorin. “The Curious Case of A.P. 9.363”. În: RITL, New Series, XIX, January-December 2025, p. 455–462. doi: 10.59277/2025.19.27.Titre: L’ÉTRANGE CAS DE A.P. 9. 363Title: THE CURIOUS CASE OF A.P. 9. 363Pages: 455–462Language: EnglishURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2025/27_D_Garofeanu.pdfDOI: 10.59277/ritl.2025.19.27 Abstract: This article examines the distinctive literary qualities of epigram A.P. 9.363, traditionally attributed to Meleager of Gadara, focusing on the ongoing debates regard­ing its authorship, generic classification, and poetic innovation. Through a detailed analysis of its structure, stylistic devices, and imagery, the article reveals the poem’s strategies of adopting and revising the established conventions of traditional Greek spring poetry, with particular focus on its enumerative method and formal innovations, that ultimately distinguish A.P. 9.363 within the context of Hellenistic poetry. Key-words: Meleager of Gadara, Palatine Anthology, Greek epigram. Bibliography Dilthey, Wilhelm. Der Geist der griechischen Anthologie. Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1887, pp. 1-27 Geffcken, Johannes. Griechische Epigramme. Heidelberg: C. Winter, 1916. Gow-Page. The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and some contemporary epigrams. A.S.F.Gow and D.L.Page (eds.), Cambridge, 1968. Guidorizzi, G. Meleagro. Epigrammi. Milano, 1922. Liddell, Henry…

👤Author Name: Alexandra CiocârlieAffiliation: C.S. II, Institutul de Istorie și Teorie literară „G. Călinescu”Contact: aciocarlie@gmail.com 📄Article Citation Recommendation: CIOCÂRLIE, Alexandra. „Ecouri homerice în Întâlnirea Gabrielei Adameșteanu”. În: RITL, New Series, XIX, January-December 2025, p. 444–454. doi: 10.59277/2025.19.26.Titlul: ECOURI HOMERICE ÎN ÎNTÂLNIREA GABRIELEI ADAMEȘTEANUTitle: HOMERIC ECHOES IN THE ENCOUNTER OF GABRIELA ADAMEȘTEANUPages: 444–454Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2025/26_A_Ciocarlie.pdfDOI: 10.59277/ritl.2025.19.26 Abstract: The novel, which describes the temporary return to the native country of a long-exiled man, unfolds under the sign of the Odyssey. Many Homeric references, quoted or paraphrased passages, are placed in key sequences of the novel. The inter­actions with the epic poem facilitate the deciphering of the major theme of the novel, that of exile. Far from being merely decorative, a pretext for a parade of erudition, the Homeric reverberations reveal hidden meanings of the events that escape a naive observer. The relationships between the modern characters can be better understood by analogy with the relationships between the Homeric heroes. The frequent referen­ces to the eleventh book of the Odyssey, which depicts Odysseus’ descent into Hades, suggest that the return to the abandoned home means death. The novel proclaims the impossibility of finding one’s homeland after a long period spent elsewhere and thus…

👤Author Name: Radivoje KonstantinovićAffiliation: Facultatea de Filologie, Universitatea din BelgradContact: radekonstantinovic@yahoo.fr 📄Article Citation Recommendation: KONSTANTINOVIĆ, Radivoje. „De l’identité de l’écrivain”. În: RITL, New Series, XIX, January-December 2025, p. 438–443. doi: 10.59277/2025.19.25.Title: ON THE IDENTITY OF THE WRITERTitre: DE L’IDENTITÉ DE L’ÉCRIVAINPages: 438–443Language: FrenchURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2025/25_R_Konstantinovic.pdfDOI: 10.59277/ritl.2025.19.25 Résumé: Cet article analyse la question de l’identité et de l’appartenance nationale des auteurs qui écrivent dans une langue de large diffusion (français ou anglais) tout en portant la forte empreinte de leur nationalité d’origine. La réflexion centrale porte sur le rapport dialectique entre la langue (la forme du texte) et le paradigme national pré­sent dans le contenu et les thèmes abordés. L’article pose la question de la classification de ces auteurs : sont-ils des écrivains français ou anglais faisant figure d’excentriques grâce aux thèmes empruntés à leur culture d’origine, ou des écrivains nationaux (serbes, polonais, roumains, juifs, etc.) s’exprimant simplement dans une autre langue ? Cette appartenance relève en partie du choix de l’écrivain lui-même. On analyse pourtant des cas ou il y a une discordance entre le choix identitaire de l’auteur et la perception de son oeuvre (Negovan Rajić). Pour estimer l’importance identitaire de la langue, l’article analyse les particularités distinguant les littératures…

👤Author Name: Cristina BalinteAffiliation: C. Ș. III, Institutul de Istorie și Teorie literară „G. Călinescu”Contact: cristina.balinte@gmail.com 📄Article Citation Recommendation: BALINTE, Cristina. „Instantanee ale memoriei. Sinaia perioadei belle époque, în cărți poştale ilustrate”. În: RITL, New Series, XIX, January-December 2025, p. 426–437. doi: 10.59277/2025.19.24.Titlul: INSTANTANEE ALE MEMORIEI. SINAIA PERIOADEI BELLE ÉPOQUE, ÎN CĂRȚI POŞTALE ILUSTRATETitle: SNAPSHOTS OF MEMORY: SINAIA OF THE BELLE ÉPOQUE PERIOD IN PICTURE POSTCARDSPages: 426–437Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2025/24_C_Balinte.pdfDOI: 10.59277/ritl.2025.19.24 Abstract: Micro-registers of memory and history, concentrated forms of communication through visual and textual simultaneity, the illustrated postcards were put into circulation during the Belle Époque period (1871-1914). The “consumption of images” (Susan Sontag) developed and the “mechanical reproduction” (Walter Benjamin) accelerated, accompanying the process of modernization of society. The reference space of this article is Sinaia (Prahova County, Romania), a small rural mountain territory that became a city from 1880 and was quickly organized as the royal summer residence during the reign of Carol I Hohenzollern. I followed the selection of landscape representative snapshots, the „parcellations” operated on the territorial frame, in the association between technique and aesthetics, succinct personal narratives and events, ideas, perceptions preserved in writing on the postcards, as an attestation through image and text of…

👤Author Name: Mirela NagâțAffiliation: Doctor în Filologie, Facultatea de Litere din BucureștiContact: mirela.nagat@drd.unibuc.ro 📄Article Citation Recommendation: NAGÂȚ, Mirela, „Radu Stanca și modelul tatălui. Paradigma unui salt calitativ cultural”. În: RITL, New Series, XIX, January-December 2025, p. 416–425. doi: 10.59277/2025.19.23.Titlul: RADU STANCA ȘI MODELUL TATĂLUI. PARADIGMA UNUI SALT CALITATIV CULTURALTitle: RADU STANCA AND HIS FATHER’S MODEL. THE PARADIGM OF A QUALITATIVE CULTURAL LEAPPages: 416–425Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2025/23_M_Nagat.pdfDOI: 10.59277/ritl.2025.19.23 Abstract: In this article, I followed the influence of the paternal model in the work and intellectual construction of Radu Stanca, the one considered the de facto head of the Literary Circle from Sibiu, and the man of direction who penned the literary ide­ology of the group. The demonstration makes a cutout that highlights an early episode susceptible to significant interpretive repositioning. Examining the family memoirs and publicist archives show that the young Radu Stanca was educated under the guidance of his father, a priest and writer, and not under that of his older brother. Inaccurately, until now, the critical tradition accredited the publicist Horia Stanca as the future poet’s mentor. Comparing the literature of the father with that of the son, is obvious that qualitative cultural leap occurred, later theorized by Radu Stanca…

👤Author Name: Bianca Burța-CernatAffiliation: C.S. III, Institutul de Istorie și Teorie Literară „G. Călinescu”Contact: bianca.cernat2015@gmail.com 📄Article Citation Recommendation: BURȚA-CERNAT, Bianca. „Noaptea de Sânziene. O cronologie a scrierii romanului”. În: RITL, New Series, XIX, January-December 2025, p. 378–415. doi: 10.59277/2025.19.22.Titlul: NOAPTEA DE SÂNZIENE. O CRONOLOGIE A SCRIERII ROMANULUITitle: NOAPTEA DE SÂNZIENE [THE FORBIDDEN FOREST]. A CHRONOLOGY OF THE NOVEL’S COMPOSITIONPages: 378–415Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2025/22_B_Burta-Cernat.pdfDOI: 10.59277/ritl.2025.19.22 Abstract: Among Mircea Eliade’s novels, The Forbidden Forest is his most elabo­rately crafted work, composed and extensively rewritten over five years (1949–1954). Developed from an unfinished manuscript, Apocalips (from the “Portuguese period”), it becomes a panoramic, multilayered novel, entailing a marked shift in both narrative strategy and the author’s usual working rhythm. Whereas earlier novels (from Isabel and the Devil’s Waters or Maitreyi to Return from Paradise, The Huligans, or Marriage in Heaven) were, by Eliade’s own account, written spontaneously in brief, intensive bursts, The Forbidden Forest was produced slowly and laboriously, in a syncopated rhythm punctuated by crises that prompted sometimes radical solutions, including the restructuring of large sections or even of an entire volume. This article reconstructs, step by step, the prolonged and intricate genesis of the novel by systematically exam­ining detailed testimony in Eliade’s…

👤Author Name: Alexandru DumitriuAffiliation: Muzeul Național al Literaturii RomâneContact: alexandru.dumitriu.ro@gmail.com 📄Article Citation Recommendation: DUMITRIU, Alexandru. „Un muckraker al înaltei literaturi: Geo Bogza”. În: RITL, New Series, XIX, January-December 2025, p. 335–377. doi: 10.59277/2025.19.21.Titlul: UN MUCKRAKER AL ÎNALTEI LITERATURI: GEO BOGZATitle: A MUCKRAKER OF HIGH LITERATURE: GEO BOGZAPages: 335–377Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2025/21_A_Dumitru.pdfDOI: 10.59277/ritl.2025.19.21 Abstract: Part of a research project that aims to write a literary history of Romanian mining, this paper explores one of the key writings on the subject: the short story The Death of Iacob Onisia (1946) by Geo Bogza (1908-1993). Established in the years between the two World Wars as a representative of the Romanian literary avant-garde, and author of poetry volumes that challenged the morals of the time – such as Journal of Sex (1929) or Invective Poem (1933) – Geo Bogza soon embraced a career in jour­nalism, without abandoning poetry altogether. His 1930s feature articles on workers in the oil and gold-mining industries, published in the press of the 1930s, reveal, in the terminology of North American journalism, the profile of a local muckraker. These texts, however, also stand out for their aesthetic quality, as Geo Bogza – one of the masters of Romanian literary reportage –…

👤Author Name: Laura BădescuAffiliation: C.S. I, Institutul de Istorie și Teorie Literară „G. Călinescu”Contact: laura.e.badescu@gmail.com 📄Article Citation Recommendation: BĂDESCU, Laura. „Plurivocitatea tăcerii în literatura cantemiriană”. În: RITL, New Series, XIX, January-December 2025, p. 324–334. doi: 10.59277/2025.19.20.Titlul: PLURIVOCITATEA TĂCERII ÎN LITERATURA CANTEMIRIANĂTitre: LA PLURIVOCITÉ DU SILENCE DANS LA LITTÉRATURE CANTÉMIRIENNEPages: 324–334Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2025/20_L_Badescu.pdfDOI: 10.59277/ritl.2025.19.20 Résumé: Le premier grand roman roumain, dans lequel les discours se superposent et se tissent à travers l’ensemble de la matière épique, construit de manière paradoxale un parcours du silence, auquel il attribue des significations distinctes, articulées aussi bien dans la relation entre les personnages et le narrateur que dans celle entre le narra­teur et le lecteur. Le Prince Cantemir explore la plurivocité du silence, en écartant ses grandes dimensions religieuses, mais en l’intégrant comme un élément des stratégies diplomatiques visant à intimider et à offrir un temps de réflexion pour le calcul poli­tique, entre autres. Mots-clé: Dimitrie Cantemir, littérature roumaine, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, silence,rhétorique. Bibliography Le Breton, David, Despre tăcere, traducere de Constantin Zaharia, Editura ALL EDUCAȚIONAL, București, 2001. Cantemir, Dimitrie, Opere. I. Divanul, Istoria ieroglifică, Hronicul vechimei a romano-moldo-vlahilor, texte, cronologie, glosar, referințe critice și introducere Hronicul de Stela Toma; Prefață, Indice de autori…

👤Author Name: Ștefan DumitrașAffiliation: Masterand, Universitatea din București, Facultatea de LitereContact: stefan.dumitras@gmail.com 📄Article Citation Recommendation: DUMITRAȘ, Ștefan. „Un exercițiu didactic de traducere. În latină. Dorința eminesciană față în față cu inconsecvența”. În: RITL, New Series, XIX, January-December 2025, p. 301–323. doi: 10.59277/2025.19.19.Titlul: UN EXERCIȚIU DIDACTIC DE TRADUCERE ÎN LATINĂ. DORINȚA EMINESCIANĂ FAȚĂ ÎN FAȚĂ CU INCONSECVENȚATitle: A TEACHING EXERCISE FOR TRANSLATION INTO LATIN. THE EMINESCIAN DESIRE FACE TO FACE WITH INCONSTANCYPages: 301–323Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2025/19_S_Dumitras.pdfDOI: 10.59277/ritl.2025.19.19 Abstract: The present study offers new evidence concerning a didactic Latin trans­lation exercise completed by M. Eminescu in the privacy of his working notebooks. The text, preserved only in draft form, has not previously been subjected to thorough analysis, which has prevented firm conclusions regarding the poet’s cultural formation and study practices. The exercise appears to date from his early activity at the editorial office of the newspaper Timpul and was originally conceived as linguistic preparation for projected Romanian translations of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. Eminescu sought the most effective technique to accomplish this objective, and he immediately realised that systematic Latin study was a time consuming and impractical endeavour, so he abandoned the learning process after the first completed task. The exercise’s source, a…

👤Author Name: Paul CernatAffiliation: C.S. I, Institutul de Istorie și Teorie Literară „G. Călinescu”Contact: cernatpaul@gmail.com 📄Article Citation Recommendation: CERNAT, Paul. „Istorii miniaturale. Insectele imaginarului eminescian”. În: RITL, New Series, XIX, January-December 2025, p. 263–300. doi: 10.59277/2025.19.18.Titlul: ISTORII MINIATURALE. INSECTELE IMAGINARULUI EMINESCIANTitle: MINIATURE HISTORIES. THE INSECTS OF EMINESCU’S IMAGINARYPages: 263–300Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2025/18_P_Cernat.pdfDOI: 10.59277/ritl.2025.19.18 Abstract: The study aims to present, with quasi-exhaustive, systematized exam ples, the symbolic relevance of the presence of insects as references in the work of M. Eminescu, whether it is poetry, prose or journalism. Organicist thinking, with the poet’s well-known conception of the natural state (inspired by the model of the „state of ants and bees”), acquires the most varied updates at the level of the entomological imaginary: from the paradisiacal one of lunar or island utopias, passing through the enchanting representations associated with wild and forested nature, to the dark ones of melancholy, loneliness, decomposition and alienation; all these images are subjec ted to a differentiated examination, following their artistic relevance and contextual implications. the „miniature” vision, a microcosmic mirror of the macrocosm, the „narcotic” and erotic aestheticism, the combination of angelic (associated with bliss) and malignant (associated with dissolution) symbolism, are expressions of a diverse bestiary…