Sanda Golopenția. De la editarea de text la scrierea polifonică
Sanda Golopenția. From Text Editing to Polyphonic Writing

Summary/Abstract: In the last two decades (after the 2000s), Sanda Golopenția dedicated herself to editing and publishing the papers and articles of her father, Anton Golopenția. A very important personality of the Romanian intellectual world between the two world wars, Anton Golopenția was one of the most famous representatives of the teams of the Sociological School in Bucharest (coordinated by Dimitrie Gusti), a researcher at the National Institute of Statistics, but also a victim of the communist regime in Romania (he died in 1951, at only 42 years old, in Văcărești prison as a political prisoner).Sanda Golopenția’s activities include, first, a sharp restitution of Anton Golopenția’s scientific work, whose articles and reports are published as complete works (Opere complete) in several massive volumes, depending on the fields to which they belong: sociology, demography, aesthetics and literature. At the same time, in addition to this scientific and cultural text editing activity, Sanda Golopenția has opened, in the last two decades, a real construction site meant to reconstruct the activity of Anton Golopenția in the context of the socio-cultural and intellectual environment in which he worked, but also in the political circumstances of his time. In this direction, she identified, transcribed, commented and published a series of documents from various archives, such as family archives, archives of family friends, archives of the National Institute of Statistics, and the former archives of the Securitate. Thus, Ultima carte (“The Last Book”, 2001) contains the transcripts of Anton Golopenția’s declarations in the case of investigations during the months of political imprisonment, Rapsodia epistolară (“Epistolary Rhapsody”, 2002–2014) contains both the letters sent by Anton Golopenția between 1923 and 1950 and the letters he received, while Românii de la est de Bug (“Romanians at the East of the Bug River”, 2008) includes field notes and reports, personal letters, disparate attempts to interpret the facts, short articles never published before, but also the answers to the Security inquiry about this research (from the East of the Bug). Sanda Golopenția thus passed from the simple memorial text to what she calls the polyphonic specificity writing, inserting, together with Anton Golopenția’s texts, speeches from the context of the production of the texts, as well as immediate or remote reactions.

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