„Sălbaticul daco-roman”. Imaginea țăranului în scrierile lui Alecu Russo
„The Daco-Roman wild”. The Image of the Peasant in the Writtings of Alecu Russo Constantin Bărbulescu

Summary/Abstract: This paper is a study in social imagology and has as topic the image of the peasant in Alecu Russo’s writings. Even if he dies at 39, in his works published during his life as also the posthumous ones, peasants are making a very interesting character. Alecu Russo’s peasants are the good savages of the 18 th century philosophy, but they fundamentally remain the savages in his own society. In a herderian spirit, peasants are the keepers of the „national genius” manifested in folk literature, music and national dances. In the end, they are the pre-eminently Romanians.

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