The Romantic l’entre-deux as an Aesthetic Operational Category in Wasted Genius
The Romantic l’entre-deux as an Aesthetic Operational Category in Wasted Genius

Summary/Abstract: The present study demonstrates the character of l’entre-deux – theinadaptable – is an anthropological basis of Romanticism from both genetic andontological perspectives, as well as a fundamental aesthetic category for thestudy of the 19th century. The notion of the maladjusted can be approachedneither in absentia, nor as an absolute i.e., a subject for study established onceand for all; this is the reason why the analysis of its essence and meaningsrequires a whole field of research, both in context and as individual instances ofverbal art. This would not omit, on the one hand, the ideological, philosophicaland literary context of the 19th century, when the notion was born anddeveloped, and, on the other hand, the writer’s personal outlook and way ofexpression. The artistic realization of the inadaptable can be found in MihaiEminescu’s literary works, particularly in Wasted Genius. This lyrical novel inthe Wertherian vein reveals in what way the dialectics of the changes in theideological and cultural paradigm generates various metamorphoses andhypostases of inadaptability in literature.

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