LA RÉVOLUTION CHEZ ION VINEA – ENTRE UTOPIE SOCIALE ET PROJET ARTISTIQUE
ION VINEA AND THE CONCEPT OF REVOLUTION. BETWEEN SOCIAL UTOPIA AND ARTISTIC PROJECT

Summary/Abstract: Ion Vinea and the Concept of Revolution. Between Social Utopia and Artistic Project. The study aims to identify the ways in which the topic of revolution appears in the work of Ion Vinea (1895-1964), an important Romanian writer of the twentieth century, as well as a director of several publications that catalyzed the literary and socio-political ideas in Romania. Like other left-wing intellectuals and the majority of avant-garde writers, Vinea deals constantly with and advocates the social revolution (which must be based on a “creative thought” and a humanistic project), whose successful stance he finds in USSR (considered to be a “great pacific and anti-revisionist power”). Gradually, the writer discovers that this incarnation of the revolution is not a righteous world of proletarians but a space for political machinations, and therefore he denounces its utopian character (including the fact that there is a “despotic regime” in USSR). A second aspect of the revolution that concerned Ion Vinea is the artistic one, for which he finds models and allies in Western literary circles. However, unlike Tristan Tzara, his old friend, Vinea envisages a revolution that excludes the scandal and exhibition, being defined as a spiritual revolution and also a means of identity construction, which guarantees the Europeanization of the Romanian literature.

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