MIRCEA ZACIU. WRITING AS A PALIMPSEST OF THE SELF
MIRCEA ZACIU. WRITING AS A PALIMPSEST OF THE SELF

Summary/Abstract: The mobility of the gaze, openness to the new, and the rigor of historicism—free from the cult of factualism and purified of sociological schematics—are just a few of the qualities of Mircea Zaciu’s critical writing. Beyond philological rigor and meticulousness, stemming from the school of Breazu and D. Popovici, it is also worth mentioning his artistic side, that warm, affectionate expression that often makes Mircea Zaciu’s writing so captivating. The Călinescu model is complemented by a moral paradigm that draws its substance from the critical initiatives of intellectuals such as Ion Breazu, D. Popovici, or Ion Chinezu, so that Mircea Zaciu’s associative spirit is complemented by analytical rigor, which proves to be the indisputable cornerstone of his studies and essays, alongside the “moral idea”—the commitment to intellectual dignity that permeates, either programmatically or subliminally, nearly all of his books.

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