Primele manifestări privind interesul scriitorilor români pentru Cervantes
This paper is not a sui generis project of identifying the Cervantine echoes in the history of Romanian literary phenomenon as such an investigation would overlap the boundaries of an article. Our goals consist in browsing the early signs of the Romanian writers’ interest in Cervantes and in offering data about the period in which the Spanish writer came to be known in the Romanian culture. It appears that one may present the interest of the Romanian literates for the Cervantine work from at least three different perspectives: 1. presenting influences of Don Quixote in Romanian literature; 2. making an inventory of the novel’s translations, of the abundance and competition of Don Quixote’s lyrics, and 3. making another inventory, that of the articles and critical studies on Cervantes. With no analytical intentions and no aim to draw some firm conclusions, our endeavor has two precise purposes: 1. proving that Cervantes was an early presence in the history of Romanian literature and 2. creating an inventory of data that could incite further investigation.
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