ÎN CĂUTAREA AUTENTICITĂŢII POETICE. DICOTOMIILE CRITICII ROMÂNEŞTI POSTBELICE
IN SEARCH OF POETICAL AUTHENTICITY. THE DICHOTOMIES OF ROMANIAN POSTWAR CRITICISM

Summary/Abstract: This article focusses on the problem of poetical authenticity and on the struggle of postwar Romanian criticism of attributing the value of authenticity according to a dichotomic system. Authenticity itself is conceived as a concept related either to „natural” or to „artificial”. The assessment made in favour of the second by N. Manolescu in the seventh decade of the last century prompted the young generation of the ’80s (whose mentor Manolescu tried to be) to adopt an aesthetics which was not entirely its own, as the poetry or teoretical positions of some of its members demonstrate. This article describes the fake opposites implied by this dichotomy and how the paradoxical nature of postwar authenticity is perceived in Western theory and also in the Romanian poetry and criticism. The search for authenticity, as a concept beyond „natural”/„artificial”, modernist/ postmodernist etc. is what relates the many postwarpoetics.

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