Le Zalmoxis de Lucian Blaga, entre construction et révolte : un aspect du débat sur le « spécifique national »dans la Roumanie d’entre-deux guerres
The Zalmoxis of Lucian Blaga, between construction and revolt:an aspect of the debate on the “national specificity” in inter-war Romania

Summary/Abstract: This study explores the debate concerning the “national specificity” in inter-war Romania, especially on the subject of the revaluation of the Dacian heritage, in the context of the quest for autochthonism, in a cultural milieu dominated by nationalism. The poet and the philosopher Lucian Blaga (1895-1961) was very interested by the Dacian ancestors, as witnessed by his essay on the ”Revolt of the non-Latin element”, or the play Zamolxe, both published in 1921. The writer challenged the current view which privileged the Latin element in the typology of the Romanians. Five years later, the monograph Getica of the historian Vasile Pârvan became the very source of the fascination for the Dacians in the Romanian culture before WWII. Numerous titles invaded the cultural market, both scientific and amateurish, and a new current, the thracomania, became fashionable. One of the champions of Dacianism was the theologian Ioan Coman, who saw the Dacian religion as announcing Christianity in its orthodox form. Once again, Blaga entered the dispute, attempting to tone down nationalist and intolerant Dacianism; he offered the model of a lucid intellectual engaged in an animated cultural debate.

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