👤Author Name: Șerban AxinteAffiliation: C.S. II, Institutul de Filologie Română „Alexandru Philippide”, IașiContact: serbanaxinte2002@yahoo.com 📄Article Citation Recommendation: AXINTE, Șerban, „Eugen Simion și rescrierea critică a ideii de modernizare”. În: RITL, New Series, XVII, No 1-4, January-December 2023, p. 110-117. doi: 10.59277/ritl.2023.17.11Titlul: EUGEN SIMION ȘI RESCRIEREA CRITICĂ A IDEII DE MODERNIZARETitle: EUGEN SIMION AND THE CRITICAL REWRITING OF THE IDEA OF MODERNIZATIONPages: 110-117Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2023/11_S_Axinte.pdfDOI: 10.59277/ritl.2023.17.11 Abstract: This paper aims to deduce the main features of Eugen Simion’s criticism in relation to his main ideational models. Emphasis is placed on the permanent shift between identification and critical distancing, these two processes contributing to a certain methodology of the interpretative act. Eugen Simion’s moderate discourse implies a certain mediation of opposites, thus reaching a rejection of univocal postulates and perspectives, considered definitive and unassailable. However, the Romanian critic does not question some ideas just for the sheer pleasure of deliberation, even though, from numerous pages, it follows that this pleasure might be real. He is mainly interested in the practical efficiency of some methods of literary interpretation and valorization through the suitability to the object. Concepts can be empty of essence if they have no practical utility. From this perspective, Eugen Simion…

👤Author Name: Petruța StanAffiliation: Profesor dr., Colegiul Național „Nicolae Iorga”, Vălenii de Munte, județul PrahovaContact: petruta.stan@yahoo.com 📄Article Citation Recommendation: STAN, Petruța, „Genurile biograficului, între timpul trăirii și timpul mărturisirii – invitație la re-lectură”. În: RITL, New Series, XVII, No 1-4, January-December 2023, p. 98-109. doi: 10.59277/ritl.2023.17.10Titlul: GENURILE BIOGRAFICULUI, ÎNTRE TIMPUL TRĂIRII ȘI TIMPUL MĂRTURISIRII – INVITAȚIE LA RE-LECTURĂTitle: BIOGRAPHICAL GENRES, BETWEEN THE TIME OF LIVING AND THE TIME OF CONFESSION – AN INVITATION TO RE-READINGPages: 98-109Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2023/10_P_Stan.pdfDOI: 10.59277/ritl.2023.17.10 Abstract: This paper refers to the way in which the critic Eugen Simion customises the diary into a wider and quite problematic category of writing with a biographic nature (character), always placed at the fragile border between clandestinity and publicity, establishing the fact that this type of writing, despite rejecting the literary conventions, builds its own system of rules which makes it functional, turning itself into a “fiction of nonfiction”. We identify a series of essential questions which refer to the necessity of an intimate diary, to its function, to the existence of a poetics of a diary. Simion (re)establishes some concepts related to this kind of writing, and to identifying a relation between the author, the narrator and the characters…

👤Author Name: Emanuela IlieAffiliation: Conferențiar universitar dr., Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din IașiContact: iliemma@yahoo.com 📄Article Citation Recommendation: ILIE, Emanuela, „«Azi este o zi bună pentru sinucigaşi». Tematizarea morţii şi alte (in)decenţe confesive ale diaristului Eugen Simion”. În: RITL, New Series, XVII, No 1-4, January-December 2023, p. 84-97. doi: 10.59277/ritl.2023.17.09Titlul: „AZI ESTE O ZI BUNĂ PENTRU SINUCIGAŞI.” TEMATIZAREA MORŢII ŞI ALTE (IN)DECENŢE CONFESIVE ALE DIARISTULUI EUGEN SIMIONTitle: “A TIME FOR LIVING, A TIME FOR CONFESSION” – THE PARISIAN DIARY OF EUGEN SIMION BETWEEN THE „FICTION OF THE INTIMATE DIARY” AND DICTIONPages: 84-97Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2023/9_E_Ilie.pdfDOI: 10.59277/ritl.2023.17.09 Abstract: According to not a few diary researchers from both Eastern and Western Europe, the journal is, of all the genres of biography, the species most threatened to turn into a savoir mourir guide. This obstinate search of the author, obsessed with discovering the best ways to get used to the „daily death” (the true catalyst of writing, the main ordering/ director of meaning, and so on), can be discovered in any journal, constituting the specific (un)hidden note of the species – this is an idea that becomes central also in the studies of some of the most important Romanian thanatologists, fully convinced, such as Adela…

👤Author Name: Simona AntofiAffiliation: Profesor Universitar dr., Universitatea „Dunărea de Jos”, GalațiContact: simona.antofi@ ugal.ro 📄Article Citation Recommendation: ANTOFI, Simona. „Timpul trăirii, timpul mărturisirii – jurnalul parizian al lui Eugen Simion între „ficțiunea jurnalului intim” și dicțiune”. În: RITL, New Series, XVII, No 1-4, January-December 2023, p. 75-83. doi: 10.59277/ritl.2023.17.08Titlul: TIMPUL TRĂIRII, TIMPUL MĂRTURISIRII – JURNALUL PARIZIAN AL LUI EUGEN SIMION ÎNTRE „FICȚIUNEA JURNALULUI INTIM” ȘI DICȚIUNETitle: “A TIME FOR LIVING, A TIME FOR CONFESSION” – THE PARISIAN DIARY OF EUGEN SIMION BETWEEN THE „FICTION OF THE INTIMATE DIARY” AND DICTIONPages: 75-83Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2023/8_S_Antofi.pdfDOI: 10.59277/ritl.2023.17.08 Abstract: Eugen Simion’s Parisian diary proposes a re-presentation of some fictionalized fragments of existence, through writing, as landmarks of a destiny and a path of formation centered around a scriptural self placed within the border between reality – fluid, changing, hard to describe – of the biographical self and the reconfiguration of its data as self narrator/ narratee. The poetic elements of the diary, the reflections on diarist writing compose, in this context, together with the repeated allusions and comments on the writings of Roland Barthes, an individualized writing path, whose characteristics we propose to identify and analyze. Keywords: intimate diary, fiction, poetics, poetics, meta-discourse Bibliography:…

👤Author Name: A.C. CofanAffiliation: Lector dr., Academia de Studii EconomiceContact: alunitzacofan@gmail.com 📄Article Citation Recommendation: COFAN, A.C., “Sketch about the intimacy of the self in autobiographical fictions”, În: RITL, New Series, XVII, No 1-4, January-December 2023, p. 63-74. doi: 10.59277/ritl.2023.17.07Title: SKETCH ABOUT THE INTIMACY OF THE SELF IN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FICTIONSPages: 63-74Language: EnglishURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2023/7_A_C_Cofan.pdfDOI: 10.59277/ritl.2023.17.07 Abstract: We undertake a short research of how it is possible to penetrate into the intimacy of the self of a cultural man, how to reveal, if it can be revealed, the existential man, using some writings belonging to the biographical genre, namely diaries. In the case of the critic Eugen Simion, we primarily use an endoscopy of the Parisian journal, Time of Living, Time of Confession (1977), and the German journal, The Defiance of Rhetoric (1985), and sometimes we also use involuntary confessions sprinkled in other writings, such as Conversations with Petru Dumitriu (1994). We try to answer the question in what measure the subject matter of these journals is based, in Michel de Montaigne’s saying, on the revelation of the singularity or the authenticity of the self, because the quoted philosopher says “the matter of these essays is myself”. And, in the case of Eugen…

👤Author Name: Ștefan FiricăAffiliation: Lect. univ. dr., Facultatea de Litere, Universitatea BucureștiContact: stefanfirica@litere.unibuc.ro 📄Article Citation Recommendation: FIRICĂ, Ștefan, „O alianță literară. de la critica biografică la întoarcerea autorului”, În: RITL, New Series, XVII, No 1-4, January-December 2023, p. 52-62. doi: 10.59277/ritl.2023.17.06Titlul: O ALIANȚĂ LITERARĂ. DE LA CRITICA BIOGRAFICĂ LA ÎNTOARCEREA AUTORULUITitle: A LITERARY ALLIANCE. FROM BIOGRAPHICAL CRITICISM TO THE RETURN OF THE AUTHORPages: 52-62Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2023/6_S_Firica.pdfDOI: 10.59277/ritl.2023.17.06 Abstract: In the milieu of interwar Romanian modernism, Șerban Cioculescu showed a particular interest in the making of literary biographies, which in the post-war decades resulted in a self-styled version of biographical criticism. This article follows the avatars of a heated debate developed in 1970-‘80s around the life and works of writer Mateiu I. Caragiale, involving, on the one hand, Alexandru George, Alexandru Paleologu, and N. Steinhardt, and on the other, Șerban Cioculescu and Eugen Simion. While the former group claims a textual hermeneutics devoid of biographical speculation, the latter supports the revival of biography-based analysis. Eugen Simion finds in Șerban Cioculescu’s approach a valuable ally, while preparing his book Întoarcerea autorului (The Return of the Author, 1981), to defy the mainstream anti-biographical orientation of Romanian criticism, and re[1]introduce, in the spirit of…

👤Author Name: Radu VoinescuAffiliation: Președintele Secției de Critică și Istorie Literară, filiala București, Uniunea Scriitorilor din RomâniaContact: radu_voinescu@yahoo.co.uk 📄Article Citation Recommendation: VOINESCU, Radu, „Eugen Simion și dilemele morale ale criticii post-decembriste”. În: RITL, New Series, XVII, No 1-4, January-December 2023, p. 44-51. doi: 10.59277/ritl.2023.17.05Titlul: EUGEN SIMION ȘI DILEMELE MORALE ALE CRITICII POST-DECEMBRISTETitle: EUGEN SIMION AND THE MORAL DILEMMAS OF POST-DECEMBER CRITICISMPages: 44-51Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2023/5_R_Voinescu.pdfDOI: 10.59277/ritl.2023.17.05 Abstract: The first two decades that followed the overthrow of the political regime in December 1989 and the transition to the mentality and rules of a new society, a new mode of production were marked, in the area of literary criticism and cultural journalism from us, by a spectacular, dramatic change in the paradigm of interpretations. Aesthetic criteria were replaced by principles of revision, of false or real collaborationism, of the artificial concept of „est-ethics”, of political and ideological orientations, of the authors and not of the work. In this context, Eugen Simion remained consistent with his engagements on the side of aesthetics. What should have been a scientific matter has become, subsequently, a moral one. And the moral for which he campaigned in articles, in his works published during this period was that of…

👤Author Name: Victor DurneaAffiliation: C.S.I, Institutul de Filologie Română „A. Philippide”, IașiContact: victordurnea@yahoo.fr 📄Article Citation Recommendation: DURNEA Victor. „Aur sterp. Avatarurile receptării critice”. În RITL, New Series, XVII, No 1-4, January-December 2023, p. 376-384. doi: 10.59277/ritl.2023.17.30Titlul: AUR STERP. AVATARURILE RECEPTĂRII CRITICETitle: “BARREN GOLD.” THE AVATARS OF THE CRITICAL RECEPTIONPages: 376-384Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2023/30_V_Durnea.pdfDOI: 10.59277/ritl.2023.17.30 Abstract: The text aims to examine the two phases of the reception of Al. Philippide’s debut volume, the one from 1922–1923 (after his appearance) and the one from 1939, which occurred when the poet’s third volume of verse, Dreams in the Roar of Time, was published. Thus, the predominance of negative judgments in the first phase is highlighted, which raises the question whether this fact did not determine the “silence” of the poet for 6-7 years and, then, the departure from the poetic ways of the volume Barren Gold and the return to romanticism and to “a classicism of essences” (G. Călinescu). In the second phase, occasioned by the appearance of the volume Dreams in the Roar of Time, the critics who welcomed him (Vladimir Streinu, G. Călinescu, Șerban Cioculescu, Pompiliu Constantinescu, etc.) noted a major “evolution” in Philippide’s poetry, but at the same time, assigned a…

👤Author Name: Liviu BordașAffiliation: Colegiul Noua Europă, BucureștiContact: liviubordas@gmail.com 📄Article Citation Recommendation: BORDAȘ, Liviu. „O carte manuscrisă pierdută. Geografia lumii copiată de Sava Popovici din Rășinari (1785)”. În RITL, New Series, XVII, No 1-4, January-December 2023, p. 369-375. doi: 10.59277/ritl.2023.17.29Titlul: O CARTE MANUSCRISĂ PIERDUTĂ. GEOGRAFIA LUMII COPIATĂ DE SAVA POPOVICI DIN RĂȘINARI (1785)Title: A LOST MANUSCRIPT BOOK. THE WORLD GEOGRAPHY COPIED BY SAVA POPOVICI FROM RĂȘINARI (1785)Pages: 369-375Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2023/29_L_Bordas.pdfDOI: 10.59277/ritl.2023.17.29 Abstract: The paper discusses a manuscript book – known in a copy made by the priest Sava Popovici (1735-1808) from Rășinari in the year 1785 –, which was described in 1912 and 1915. Its trace was completely lost afterwards and it attracted attention only once, in a marginal way. Our research has led to the identification of the original – a Russian introductory book for the students of the Saint Petersburg academic gymnasium – and to a plausible proposal for its anonymous author: the Prussian astronomer Christian Nicolaus von Winsheim (1694-1751), who was teaching after the famous schoolbook of Johann Hübner. We are also proposing the most probable author of the translation: the schoolmaster Radu Duma (174?-1791) from Brașov. Its final sections discuss the image of India as described…

👤Author Name: Dana ShishmanianAffiliation: ParisContact: dana.shishmanian@capgemini.com 📄Article Citation Recommendation: SHISHMANIAN, Dana. „Anton Pann: la repentance d’un débauché – un poème occulté”. În RITL, New Series, XVII, No 1-4, January-December 2023, p. 351-368. doi: 10.59277/ritl.2023.17.28Titre: ANTON PANN: LA REPENTANCE D’UN DÉBAUCHÉ – UN POÈME OCCULTÉPages: 351-368Language: FrenchURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2023/28_D_Shishmanian.pdfDOI: 10.59277/ritl.2023.17.28 Abstract: We show in this study that a purported edition of a manuscript from 1648 by Paisie Lambru, a monk from the Romanian Skete of Prodromos (Mount Athos), published in Bucharest in 1905, is in fact the reproduction of a forgotten poem belonging to Anton Pann (1790-1854): Pocăinţa omului dezmerdat sau Vorbire între suflet şi trup / The Repentance of the Debauched Man, or Conversation between Soul and Body, which was published by the author in his typography in 1849 and republished just before his death in 1854 (the title in French – La repentance de l’homme débauché, ou Entretien entre l’âme et le corps, versifié et édité par A. Pann – was noted by the romanist Émile Picot, who acquired a copy in Romania in 1885, which has since entered the collections of the BNF). Excluded from all editions of Anton Pann’s works, and therefore unknown even to specialists, this poem…