The 1927 Generation in Romania: Friendships and Ideological Choices [Mihail Sebastian, Mircea Eliade, Nae Ionescu, Eugene Ionesco, E. M. Cioran)
The 1927 Generation in Romania: Friendships and Ideological Choices [Mihail Sebastian, Mircea Eliade, Nae Ionescu, Eugene Ionesco, E. M. Cioran)
Author(s): Matei CalinescuSubject(s): History of ideas, Social history, Social psychology and group interaction, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: Romania; generation of 1927; friendships; personal relationships; social intelligentsia; ideological choices;
Summary/Abstract: It is a truism that personal relationships among highly intelligent and creative people-friendships in particular, but also animosities and even certain kinds of hatreds that are friendships in reverse-are enormously complex affairs. They are alway s in flux and, over shorter or longer periods of time, they can change dramatically, be lost or regained, bloom or wither, or vanish altogether as if they had never existed. Friendships are at once extremely fragile and amazingly resilient. A trifle-a casual remark, a minor inattention, even a smile at the wrong moment-can destroy a great friendship forever; paradoxically, a strong intellectual disagreement may affect it only slowly, and not irreversibly. [...]
Journal: East European Politics and Societies
- Issue Year: 15/2001
- Issue No: 03
- Page Range: 649-677
- Page Count: 29
- Language: English
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