PAUL CORNEA. HERMENEUTICAL PERSPECTIVES. INTERPRETATION AS PLURALITY AND DIALOGUE
PAUL CORNEA. HERMENEUTICAL PERSPECTIVES. INTERPRETATION AS PLURALITY AND DIALOGUE

Summary/Abstract: In Paul Cornea’s view, the problem of interpretation is structured in a theoretical discourse for which the critical relevance is given by rigor and analytical pragmatism. The critic doesn’t hesitate to meditate on the epistemological dimensions of literary criticism and history, revisiting the illusions, chances and methodological perspectives of these disciplines. The work of art, as an autonomous individuality, is also perceived by the literary critic from the perspective of its contextualization and of the historical and social horizons where it develops, while literature itself is systematically circumscribed or seen as a “collective” field, commented through some defining concepts (success, influence, concordance, genetic criticism, etc.). In the theoretician’s view, the interpretation is the result of a hermeneutical relation in which the explanatory vocation meets the ability to comprehend the meanings of the text. If the reading may be seen as a first stage in the assumption of the text, the interpretation is related to the intimate comprehension of it, as well as to the recovery of the meanings that have a privileged status in its more or less complex structure. On the other hand, the passing to the moment of interpretation is catalyzed by a crisis of the meaning, a crisis that any interpretation attempts to solve. The relativization of the points of view, the nuancing of the opinions, the refusal of any preestablished conception, of any methodological prejudice represent, in fact, the essential features of the type of rationality employed and illustrated, in his books, by Paul Cornea.

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