Vladimir Streinu. Melancolia eşecului critic
Vladimir Streinu. The Melancholy of Critical Failure

Summary/Abstract: Literary historian, essayist and poet, Vladimir Streinu fosters a compelling exchange of ideas between literary criticism and theories on and about the act of literary criticism. The present paper considers his understanding of art as well as his rejection of critical method, both as a matter of principle and as historical and psychological readings of literature; furthermore, it gives insight into literary criticism as the self-awareness of a functorial failure that conjures up a mood of melancholy. Against the backdrop of the intrinsically ‘external’ nature of critical practice, the impossibility of penetrating the intimate space of creation is underpinning not only Streinu’s Problems of Literary Criticism, but many of his critical studies on Tudor Arghezi or Mihai Eminescu.

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