Remarks regarding the Romanian writers and literary world at the beginning of the 20th century  Cover Image

Consideraţii privind scriitorii şi lumea literară românească în zorii secolului al XX-lea
Remarks regarding the Romanian writers and literary world at the beginning of the 20th century

Author(s): Speranţa Sofia Milancovici
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii Vasile Goldiş
Keywords: traditionalism; modernism; metamorphosis; old; new; tradiţionalism; modernism; prefacere; vechi; nou

Summary/Abstract: An analysis of the cultural configuration at the beginning of the 20th century leads to the conclusion that the dominant tendency is that of changing. The two forces in dispute are the traditionalism and the modernism. The Romanian literary world is characterised by impurity. The reason is the fact that many artistic forms that were already anachronistic in Occident, in Romania didn’t express all their potential and, on the other hand, we can detect, at the very beginning of the 20th century, a new wave of confusion between the concepts of aesthetic, ethic and ethnic. This contradictory landscape is completed by the avant-garde movements, characterised by extreme denial of tradition, cancellation of all patterns and revolt accompanied by repulsion against human and cultural condition.

  • Issue Year: VII/2011
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 111-114
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Romanian