ŞANSA UNEI LITERATURI ÎNTRE EXORCIZAREA TRECUTULUI ŞI PROVOCĂRILE GLOBALIZĂRII.LITERATURA ROMÂNĂ AZI ŞI ECOURILE EI POLONEZE
THE CHANCE OF A LITERATURE BETWEEN THE PAST RELIEVE AND THE CHALLENGES OF GLOBALIZATION. CONTEMPORARY ROMANIAN LITERATURE AND ITS POLISH ECHO

Summary/Abstract: In 1992, in one of the chapters of his book Pentru Europa! Integrarea României. Aspecte ideologice şi culturale (Polirom, Iaşi, 1995), Adrian Marino refers to a project of publishing a series of European literatures under the title Histoire de la littérature européenne. Lettres européennes, accomplished by one hundred and fifty academics all over the geographical Europe, and coordinated by Annik Benoit-Dusausoy and Guy Fontaine (Bruxelles-Paris, De Boeck, 1992). The book contained only 26 Romanian names, while the last chapter, Figures contemporaines, presented only one Romanian writer, Titus Bărbulescu. Adrian Marino understands and even explains the situation by saying that never the Romanian state made any effort to promote the Romanian literary and cultural values, and tries to identify possible ways to change the situation after 1989. Starting from Adrian Marino’s study, the present paper aims at identifying the trends and tendencies in promoting contemporary Romanian literature and culture abroad today, making the observation that the Romanian cinema has been the first to exorcise the Communist Romanian past, while one of the most productive types of Romanian literature nowadays is that of diary and memory writing, which creates a continuation in the existence of the Romanian people before and after 1989, in an attitude of Memini ergo sum. In between these two forms of expression, a new type of literature is being born and promoted. The author of the paper will thus make references to Romanian literature writing and (self-)promotion abroad today, more specifically in Poland, and its echoes in the Polish cultural space.

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