Le Roman de l'entre-deux-guerres et la nostalgie de l'Ancien Regime
The inter-war novel and the nostalgia for „The Old Regime”

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the following essay is to outline a typology (among the many possible ones) of the Romanian novel between the two World Wars, starting from the idea that there exists a nostalgic, “retro” modernity, interested in the aesthetic rebirth of old-fashioned conventions. The aesthetic nostalgia of the “Old patriarchal Regime” before the year 1916 – phenomenon with both historical and subjective implications – dominates over the perspective of some high-ranked prose-writers from the ’20s-’40s, ranging from Mateiu Caragiale to Mihail Sadoveanu and from G. Cålinescu to Mircea Eliade.

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