👤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masses are poor conductors of beauty’, being incurably ignorant, we juxtapose ideas from a recently discovered quasi-unpublished article, dating from the fall of 1946, in which the critic wants to persuade his readers that ‘Bach’s music is accessible even to peasants’, whereas the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…

👤Author Name: Alexandru DumitriuAffiliation: Muzeul Național al Literaturii RomâneContact: alexandru.dumitriu.ro@gmail.com 📄Article Citation Recommendation: DUMITRIU, Alexandru. „Un centenar între adevăruri și mistificări: Eugen Barbu la judecata de apoi a posterității”. RITL, New Series, XVIII, 2024, p. 338–422. doi: 10.59277/ritl.2024.18.28Titlul: UN CENTENAR ÎNTRE ADEVĂRURI ȘI MISTIFICĂRI: EUGEN BARBU LA JUDECATA DE APOI A POSTERITĂȚIITitle: A CENTENNIAL BETWEEN TRUTH AND MISTRUTH: EUGEN BARBU AT THE POSTERITY’S LAST JUDGMENTPages: 338–422Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2024/28_A_Dumitriu.pdfDOI: 10.59277/ritl.2024.18.28 Abstract: This study concerns the controversy surrounding the life and work of Eugen Barbu (1924–1993), a writer at the forefront of the Romanian literature after World War II, whose birth centennial is this year. On this occasion, the “Eugen Barbu case” has once again been in the centre of attention, causing different reactions, in which the mistruth has overlapped the truth. In the first part, the study analyzes the accusations of plagiarism against one of Barbu’s benchmark novels. In 2016, the “România literară” journal published a file to let it be understood that the novel Groapa (1957) would have encapsulated the micro-novel Hotel Maidan (1935) signed by Stoian Gh. Tudor (1911–1941). Dissected point by point, the evidence on which the demonstration from “România literară” relies, which has been embraced – without…

👤Author Name: Mihai Robert RoșcaAffiliation: Universitatea din București, doctorand al Facultății de LitereContact: robertrosca@yahoo.co.uk 📄Article Citation Recommendation: ROȘCA, Mihai Robert. „Ficțiunea distopică – divertisment sau cântec de lebădă?”. RITL, New Series, XVIII, 2024, p. 317–337. doi: 10.59277/ritl.2024.18.27Titlul: FICȚIUNEA DISTOPICĂ – DIVERTISMENT SAU CÂNTEC DE LEBĂDĂ?Title: DYSTOPIAN FICTION – ENTERTAINMENT OR SWAN SONG?Pages: 317–337Language: RomanianURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2024/27_M_R_Rosca.pdfDOI: 10.59277/ritl.2024.18.27 Abstract: Dystopian and post-apocalyptic fiction stands out in the contemporary cultural landscape, both in terms of best-selling popular culture products, notably the best-selling novels or blockbuster movies aimed at an YA audience, and increasingly in the high culture sphere. The former contempt of the academia for science fiction has led to a reassessment and “repackaging” by the writers of their works as belonging to the speculative fiction genre. The inner space science fiction, sometimes rebranded as dystopian, cli-fi and post-apocalyptic fiction has gradually moved away from the outer worlds of the hard sci-fi. Several interpretation keys can be discerned from the analysis of the dystopian genre’s profitable market, including collective anguish during what may currently seem to be the End Times, guilt for the climate collapse, spiritual masochistic pleasure, gender issues etc., keeping in mind, though, the obvious peril of oversimplification. The insertion of…

👤Author Name: Zdenka Valent BelićAffiliation: PhD, translator and independent researcherContact: zdenkavb@gmail.com 📄Article Citation Recommendation: VALENT BELIĆ, Zdenka. “Deviation From the Standard in the Literary Translation of the Novel The Bride of the Mountains by František Švantner According to the Language Model of the Novel The Wretched by Vidosav Stevanović”. RITL, New Series, XVIII, 2024, p. 303–316. doi: 10.59277/ritl.2024.18.26Title: DEVIATION FROM THE STANDARD IN THE LITERARY TRANSLATION OF THE NOVEL THE BRIDE OF THE MOUNTAINS BY FRANTIŠEK ŠVANTNER ACCORDING TO THE LANGUAGE MODEL OF THE NOVEL THE WRETCHED BY VIDOSAV STEVANOVIĆPages: 303–316Language: EnglishURL: https://ritl.ro/pdf/2024/26_Z_Valent_Belic.pdfDOI: 10.59277/ritl.2024.18.26 Abstract: The leading work of Slovak literary naturism, the dominant movement in Slo­vak literature of the 1930s and 1940s, The Bride of the Mountains (Nevesta hôľ) by Fran­tišek Švantner, presents a complex, multi-layered, metonymic-metaphorical portrayal of the search for human essence. It represents an effort to understand the world through man’s struggle with himself and the world around him. The characters are strongly connected to nature, which serves as the foundation of the ancient spirit of humanity. They go through a gnoseological hell, recognizing the harmony between the deepest layers of existence and archaic-mythical patterns, as well as ancient and pagan customs. To depict the primal…