DICKENS IN ROMANIA 1983-2013
DICKENS IN ROMANIA 1983-2013

Summary/Abstract: The article sets out to make a brief survey of Dickens’ reception in Romania starting with the year following the publication of Grigore Vereş’ landmark study Opera lui Charles Dickens în România (1982). It discusses the critical reception, referring to book-length explorations such as Grigore Vereş’s Charles Dickens (1984), Monica Bottez’s Recurrent Images in Charles Dickens’s Work (1985), Mihai Rădulescu’s Antropologia stilistică - lumea lui Charles Dickens (1995), Maria-Ana Tupan’s A Discourse Analyst’s Dickens (1999), comparative studies, such as Alexandru Mica’s Fantasticul introspectiv şi fantastical “voalat” ca sursă de cunoaştere la N.V. Gogol, E.A. Poe şi Ch. Dickens (1993), Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston’s To Kill a Text: The Dialogic Fiction of Hugo, Dickens and Zola (1995), Elena Morărescu’s Universul copilăriei şi imaginea copilului la Charles Dickens, Ion Creangă şi Mark Twain (2006), and a variety of chapters in books and articles. It also includes a discussion of the Dickens translations published in this period, of the works translated for the first time, namely a selection of short stories, The Life of Our Lord, Pictures from Italy, Barnaby Rudge, A Child’s History of England and of new translations of titles already translated, as well as a list of all these translations.

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