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EUGEN SIMION ȘI ARADUL CULTURAL: ȘANSA UNEI ÎNTÂLNIRI PROVIDENȚIALE
Articles / December 20, 2023

👤Author Name: Speranța Sofia MilancoviciAffiliation: Conferențiar universitar dr., Universitatea de Vest „Vasile Goldiș”, AradContact: m_speranta@yahoo.com 📄Article Citation Recommendation: MILANCOVICI, Speranța Sofia. „Eugen Simion și Aradul cultural: șansa unei întâlniri providențiale”.  În: RITL, New Series, XVII, No 1-4, January-December 2023, p. 127-134. doi: 10.59277/ritl.2023.17.13Titlul: EUGEN SIMION ȘI ARADUL CULTURAL: ȘANSA UNEI ÎNTÂLNIRI PROVIDENȚIALETitle: EUGEN SIMION AND ARAD CULTURAL CITY: THE CHANCE OF A PROVIDENTIAL ENCOUNTERPages: 127-134Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2023/13_S_S_Milancovici.pdfDOI: 10.59277/ritl.2023.17.13 Abstract: Eugen Simion visited Arad on multiple occasions, meeting writers, teachers, literary critics of the place, animating them all in the name of large-scale projects and enriching, through his energy and vision, the cultural events that marked the literary life of the city. We propose a presentation of some projects that he initiated in Arad and which constitute essential moments for the Romanian culture: the publication of the volumes Ioan Slavici, Opere V (2005), Opere VI (2006) and Opere IX (2010), Tudor Arghezi, Opere X (2011) and Ștefan Augustin Doinaș, Opere I (2016) and Opere II (2016), in the Pléiade type collection, and also the support he gave to the publication of the volume of hitherto unpublished manuscripts by Tudor Arghezi.. The moments and works presented in this study were, undoubtedly, milestones…

O RECTIFICARE: ADEVĂRATUL DEBUT PUBLICISTIC AL TÂNĂRULUI CRITIC ȘI ISTORIC LITERAR EUGEN SIMION. DIN BĂNCILE ȘCOLII LA REDACȚIA GAZETEI LITERARE
Articles / December 20, 2023

👤Author Name: Răduț BîlbîieAffiliation: Conferențiar universitar dr., Universitatea din BucureștiContact: bilbiie@yahoo.com 📄Article Citation Recommendation: RĂDUȚ, Bîlbîie, „O rectificare: adevăratul debut publicistic al tânărului critic și istoric literar Eugen Simion. Din băncile școlii la redacția gazetei literare”. În: RITL, New Series, XVII, No 1-4, January-December 2023, p. 118-126. doi: 10.59277/ritl.2023.17.12Titlul: O RECTIFICARE: ADEVĂRATUL DEBUT PUBLICISTIC AL TÂNĂRULUI CRITIC ȘI ISTORIC LITERAR EUGEN SIMION. DIN BĂNCILE ȘCOLII LA REDACȚIA GAZETEI LITERARETitle: A CORRECTION: THE TRUE PUBLISHING DEBUT OF THE YOUNG LITERARY CRITIC AND HISTORIAN EUGEN SIMION. FROM THE SCHOOL BENCHES TO THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE LITERARY GAZETTEPages: 118-126Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2023/12_R_Bilbie.pdfDOI: 10.59277/ritl.2023.17.12 Abstract: The study corrects dictionary articles and texts from various histories of literature regarding the year and publication in which Eugen Simion debuted in the cultural press, indicating, as the correct year of debut, the year of his graduation from the faculty, 1957, respectively the publication „Gazeta literară” (“The Literary Gazette”), year IV, no. 29 (175), Thursday, July 18, 1957. Keywords: Eugen Simion, publishing debut, „Gazeta literară” (“The Literary Gazette”). Bibliography: Academia Română, Cronologia vieții literare românești Perioada postbelică, 1956-1957, vol. VII, Editura Muzeul național al literaturii române, București, 2011. Academia Română, Cronologia vieții literare românești Perioada postbelică, 1958, vol….

EUGEN SIMION ȘI RESCRIEREA CRITICĂ A IDEII DE MODERNIZARE
Articles / December 20, 2023

👤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…

GENURILE BIOGRAFICULUI, ÎNTRE TIMPUL TRĂIRII ȘI TIMPUL MĂRTURISIRII – INVITAȚIE LA RE-LECTURĂ
Articles / December 20, 2023

👤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…

„AZI ESTE O ZI BUNĂ PENTRU SINUCIGAŞI.” TEMATIZAREA MORŢII ŞI ALTE (IN)DECENŢE CONFESIVE ALE DIARISTULUI EUGEN SIMION
Articles / December 20, 2023

👤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…

TIMPUL TRĂIRII, TIMPUL MĂRTURISIRII – JURNALUL PARIZIAN AL LUI EUGEN SIMION ÎNTRE „FICȚIUNEA JURNALULUI INTIM” ȘI DICȚIUNE
Articles / December 20, 2023

👤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:…

SKETCH ABOUT THE INTIMACY OF THE SELF IN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FICTIONS
Articles / December 20, 2023

👤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…

O ALIANȚĂ LITERARĂ. DE LA CRITICA BIOGRAFICĂ LA ÎNTOARCEREA AUTORULUI
Articles / December 20, 2023

👤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…

EUGEN SIMION ȘI DILEMELE MORALE ALE CRITICII POST-DECEMBRISTE
Articles / December 20, 2023

👤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…

AUR STERP. AVATARURILE RECEPTĂRII CRITICE
Articles / December 20, 2023

👤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…