👤Author
Name: Carmen Brăgaru
Affiliation: 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. CĂLINESCU
Title: WHEN DIAMONDS TURN BACK INTO COAL: TWO ARTICLES ON ART BY G. CĂLINESCU
Pages: 103–112
Language: Romanian
URL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2025/7_C_Bragaru.pdf
DOI: 10.59277/ritl.2025.19.07
Abstract: Our paper examines, through two case studies, how, over the span of a
decade, 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masses are poor conductors of beauty’, being incurably ignorant, we juxtapose ideas from a recently discovered quasi-unpublished article, dating from the fall of 1946, in which the critic wants to persuade his readers that ‘Bach’s music is accessible even to peasants’, whereas the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 to produce’, does not ‘lower himself ’ when creating for the people, but ‘consolidates himself on firm foundations’.
Key-words: G. Călinescu, Ion Pillat, aesthetics, ideology, paradigm shift, quasi-unpublished text.