👤Author Name: Carmen BrăgaruAffiliation: C.S. III, Institutul de Istorie și Teorie Literară „G. Călinescu”Contact: c.bragaru@gmail.com 📄Article Citation Recommendation: BRĂGARU, Carmen, „Când diamantele redevin cărbuni. Două articole despre artă ale lui G. Călinescu”. În: RITL, New Series, XIX, January-December 2025, p. 103–112. doi: 10.59277/2025.19.07.Titlul: CÂND DIAMANTELE REDEVIN CĂRBUNI. DOUĂ ARTICOLE DESPRE ARTĂ ALE LUI G. CĂLINESCUTitle: WHEN DIAMONDS TURN BACK INTO COAL: TWO ARTICLES ON ART BY G. CĂLINESCUPages: 103–112Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2025/7_C_Bragaru.pdfDOI: 10.59277/ritl.2025.19.07 Abstract: Our paper examines, through two case studies, how, over the span of adecade, G. Călinescu descends from the heights of pure aesthetics onto the battlefield of ideological aesthetics, adapting his discourse to the imperatives of the moment. To the subtle theorization of the one-line poem, an innovative lyrical form proposed by Ion Pillat in his volume Poems in one verse (Poeme într-un vers, 1936), and the categorical assertion in his Univers of Poetry (Universul poeziei, 1947) that ‘the masses are poor conductors of beauty’, being incurably ignorant, we juxtapose ideas from a recently discovered quasi-unpublished article, dating from the fall of 1946, in which the critic wants to persuade his readers that ‘Bach’s music is accessible even to peasants’, whereas the artist, ‘a highly qualified worker, duty-bound…

👤Author Name: Lucian ChișuAffiliation: C.S. I, Institutul de Istorie și Teorie Literară „G. Călinescu”Contact: lucianchisu@gmail.com 📄Article Citation Recommendation: CHIȘU, Lucian. „Marin Sorescu atins de «aripa» destinului”. În: RITL, New Series, XIX, January-December 2025, p. 84-102. doi: 10.59277/2025.19.06.Titlul: MARIN SORESCU ATINS DE „ARIPA” DESTINULUITitle: MARIN SORESCU TOUCHED BY THE “WING” OF DESTINYPages: 84–102Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2025/6_L_Chisu.pdfDOI: 10.59277/ritl.2025.19.06 Abstract: This study explores a series of previously unexamined aspects concerning the reception of Marin Sorescu’s poetry during his early literary debut. It also delves into literary history as a reflection of the reverence the poet extends to the eminent cultural figure G. Călinescu, in gratitude for having his verses commented upon in the latter’s renowned column in Contemporanul. We are not, strictly speaking, dealing with a correspondence, but rather with a brief epistolary moment in Sorescu’s life. The two letters sent to G. Călinescu during the final months of his life received no reply. Yet they reveal Marin Sorescu’s “monologue” on his own lyrical universe, through which Călinescu gains insight into the young poet’s views on the role of poetry, interwoven with examples from his own work. This unveiling of a creative programme unfolds in the form of a confession, one that does not…

👤Author Name: Ileana MihăilăAffiliation: Prof. univ. dr. emerit, Universitatea din BucureștiContact: ileanamihaila59@gmail.com 📄Article Citation Recommendation: MIHĂILĂ, Ileana. „Starea de poezie în viziunea profesorului G. Călinescu”. În: RITL, New Series, XIX, January-December 2025, p. 70-83. doi: 10.59277/2025.19.05.Titlul: STAREA DE POEZIE ÎN VIZIUNEA PROFESORULUI G. CĂLINESCUTitre: L’ÉTAT DE POÉSIE SELON LE PROFESSEUR G. CĂLINESCUPages: 70-83Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2025/5_I_Mihaila.pdfDOI: 10.59277/ritl.2025.19.05 Résumé: L’article propose une vision synthétique de quelques idées théoriques esquissées et illustrées par G. Călinescu dans le préambule de la première version de son essai Universul poeziei, bien moins connue aux spécialistes et encore moins aux lecteurs avisés que la version parue en 1948 et rééditée par la suite. Cette partie (et bien d’autres encore) ont été sacrifiées par l’auteur dans la version publiée dans Jurnalul literar. À sa base se trouve le volumineux manuscrit préparé par Călinescu lui-même pour s’en servir pendant ses séminaires à l’Université de Iași, vers la fin des années ’30, qui complétaient son propre Cours de Poésie. Les deux, cours et séminaires, allaient être repris immédiatement après 1945 à l’Université de Bucarest, selon les témoignages de son ancien étudiant Alexandre Piru, conservés dans sa préface à l’édition des écrits théoriques de son professeur en 1974, intitulée Principii de…

👤Author Name: George Corbu Jr.Affiliation: Cercetător independetContact: gcorbu.j@gmail.com 📄Article Citation Recommendation: CORBU, George Jr. „Flori din dedicații”. În: RITL, New Series, XIX, January-December 2025, p. 55-69. doi: 10.59277/2025.19.04.Titlul: FLORI DIN DEDICAȚIITitle: FLOWERS FROM DEDICATIONSPages: 55-69Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2025/4_G_Corbu_Jr.pdfDOI: 10.59277/ritl.2025.19.04 Abstract: The present article, written on the occasion of the 95th anniversary of the birth of the poet Aurel Rău, editor and later editor-in-chief of the magazine Steaua, offers a brief overview of his intellectual biography. Starting from several dedications on books that the writer had originally offered to personalities such as Mihail Petroveanu, Mihnea Gheorghiu, Dumitru Micu or Nicolae Manolescu, volumes which later came into the possession of George Corbu Junior, the study reconstructs, from a memorialistic perspective, several episodes from the postwar history of Romania. The text brings to light information of an emotional nature, as well as cultural and, not least, political aspects. Keywords: Aurel Rău, anniversary, autographed books, history of Romania, 1977earthquake, 1989 Revolution

👤Author Name: Vasile GribinceaAffiliation: Doctorand la Facultatea de Litere a Universității din BucureștiContact: gribincea.vasile@gmail.com 📄Article Citation Recommendation: GRIBINCEA, Vasile. „O cale în critică dincolo de metodologie, o carte dincolo de exclusivitatea criticii literare: Mircea Martin, identificări”. În: RITL, New Series, XIX, January-December 2025, p. 39-54. doi: 10.59277/2025.19.03.Titlul: O CALE ÎN CRITICĂ DINCOLO DE METODOLOGIE, O CARTE DINCOLO DE EXCLUSIVITATEA CRITICII LITERARE: MIRCEA MARTIN, IDENTIFICĂRITitle: A WAY BEYOND METHODOLOGY IN THE LITERARY CRITICISM, A BOOK BEYOND THE LITERARY CRITICISM’S EXCLUSIVITY: MIRCEA MARTIN, IDENTIFICĂRIPages: 39-54Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2025/3_V_Gribincea.pdfDOI: 10.59277/ritl.2025.19.03 Abstract: This study proposes a (re)reading of Mircea Martin’s book Identificări(Cartea Românească, 1977; Tracus Arte, 2013), considering elements of unity and polyvalence in the author’s critical conception and practice, while also including connections with other writings by Mircea Martin and examples of how the work of this eminent Romanian literary critic and theorist has been received. Any initial impression of a composite construction is dispelled by the perception of a carefully designed composition which, beyond thematic recurrences, emerges in the ordered and subtly gradated alternation between predominantly analytical texts and predominantly synthetic ones, through the unity of diction: not only through the striking refinement of lexical acuity, but also through the organization of the…

👤Author Name: Sorin AlexandrescuAffiliation: Profesor emerit la Universitatea din Amsterdam și profesor asociat la Universitatea din București (director-fondator CESI), membru de onoare al Academiei RomâneContact: salexandrescu2005@yahoo.com 📄Article Citation Recommendation: ALEXANDRESCU, Sorin. „Eugen Simion și existențialismul românesc”. În: RITL, New Series, XIX, January-December 2025, p. 23-38. doi: 10.59277/2025.19.02.Titlul: EUGEN SIMION ȘI EXISTENȚIALISMUL ROMÂNESCTitle: EUGEN SIMION AND ROMANIAN EXISTENTIALISMPages: 23-38Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2025/2_S_Alexandrescu.pdfDOI: 10.59277/ritl.2025.19.02 Abstract: This article aims to discuss the interpretations that Eugen Simion formulated regarding Romanian existentialism. The focus will fall mainly on the intellectual activity of three interwar Romanian thinkers: Mircea Vulcănescu, Emil Cioran, and Mircea Eliade. One of the directions we will emphasize is the fact that Eugen Simion convincingly demonstrated the real manifestation of this Romanian existentialism — that is, a local current of thought which preceded the postwar French existentialism. We will also underline the idea that although Eugen Simion did not write a history of Romanian literature but rather a history of Romanian writers, he built this project under the influence of two expressions coined by Mircea Vulcănescu, both proving to be extraordinary intuitions: “historicism through resignation” and “activism out of despair.” Keywords: Eugen Simion, Romanian existentialism, Mircea Vulcănescu, Emil Cioran,Mircea Eliade, history of Romanian writers….

👤Author Name: Gisèle VanheseAffiliation: Universitatea din Calabria (Italia)Contact: gvanhese@unical.it 📄Article Citation Recommendation: VANHESE, Gisèle. „Eugen Simion. Un exégète de la profondeur”. În: RITL, New Series, XIX, January-December 2025, p. 7-22. doi: 10.59277/2025.19.01.Titlul: EUGEN SIMION. UN EXÉGÈTE DE LA PROFONDEURTitle: EUGEN SIMION. AN EXEGETE OF PROFUNDITYPages: 7-22Language: FrenchURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2025/1_G_Vanhese.pdfDOI: 10.59277/ritl.2025.19.01 Abstract: In the opening address of the Eugen Simion – modèles de critique littéraire roumaine, we examine one of the critical trajectories that define Eugen Simion’s vast and multifaceted oeuvre: the mythic perspective. This dimension is most clearly articulated in his seminal exegesis of Mircea Eliade as a novelist (Mircea Eliade. Nodurile şi semnele prozei), which we analyze, from this vantage point, in the first part of our study. As we further argue in the second part, Simion’s theoretical enterprise in The Return of the Author (Întoarcerea autorului) appears to be structured around a mythic narrative – the tale of Diana and Actaeon – that comes to symbolize the quest for unity within the literary work, a unity that less discerning critics risk fragmenting. Moreover, Simion advances this vision beyond the limits of literary criticism itself, extending it, in a characteristically prophetic gesture, to a broader cultural phenomenon: migrant literature. It…

SUMAR: COLOCVIUL „EUGEN SIMION – MODELELE CRITICII LITERARE ROMÂNEŞTI“, EDIŢIA A II-A, INSTITUTUL DE ISTORIE ŞI TEORIE LITERARĂ „G. CĂLINESCU“, 18-19 IUNIE 2025Gisèle VANHESE, Eugen Simion. Un exégète de la profondeur / 7Sorin ALEXANDRESCU, Eugen Simion și existențialismul românesc / 23 MIRCEA MARTIN – 85Vasile GRIBINCEA, O cale în critică dincolo de metodologie, o carte dincolo de exclusivitatea criticii literare: Mircea Martin, Identificări / 39 AUREL RĂU – 95George CORBU JR., Flori din dedicații / 55 COLOCVIUL „G. CĂLINESCU – 60 DE ANI DE POSTERITATE“,MUZEUL NAȚIONAL AL LITERATURII ROMÂNE, 14 MARTIE 2025Ileana MIHĂILĂ, Starea de poezie în viziunea profesorului G. Călinescu / 70Lucian CHIȘU, Marin Sorescu atins de „aripa” destinului / 84Carmen BRĂGARU, Când diamantele redevin cărbuni. Două articole despre artă ale lui G. Călinescu / 103Radu VOINESCU, The Universe of Poetry or the Hidden Dimension of G. Călinescu’s Criticism / 113Ana-Maria BĂNICĂ, Viața lui Mihai Eminescu de G. Călinescu: între receptare critică și teorie literară / 127A.C. COFAN, G. Călinescu față-n față cu propaganda comunistă / 148Maria Ioana OANCEA, Gestica personajelor lui G. Călinescu / 158George NEAGOE, G. Călinescu și pedagogia estetică / 178Iuliana BARNA, Nuvelele lui G. Călinescu – între partituri epice și pilde didactice / 195 DOCUMENTAlexandru…