E. Lovinescu şi I. Negoiţescu – întâlnirea a două mari spirite critice
E. Lovinescu and I. Negoiţescu – meeting of a two large critical spirits

Summary/Abstract: The meeting of the critic E. Lovinescu, who reached the age of maximum critical authority with his young Siberian disciple, I. Negoiţescu, strange personality, but with obvious signs of intellectual prodigiousness, takes place in the background of a Bucharest summer in 1941. It is the meeting of two large spirits, which is beneficial, refreshing, and stimulating. This will remain for the two protagonists a memory of moments of grace. The critic enjoys, in this era, an important prestige of an uncontested moral and literary authority, of an aura of his personality, which is close to legend. For the young and endowed critic original from Transylvania, his meeting with the Master, with the directing spirit of the era’s Romanian literature, represents an experience, which is decisive for his intellectual becoming, and moreover a real existential adventure.

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