L’IDÉE DE GÉNÉRATION CHEZ LE CRITIQUE ROUMAIN MIRCEA VULCĂNESCU
MIRCEA VULCĂNESCU CONCEPT OF GENERATIONS OF WRITERS

Summary/Abstract: Mircea Vulcănescu Concept of Generations of Writers. In the Romanian literary criticism, the issue of generations became the subject of theoretical reflection later than in Western Europe. Much later than in Germany, where the first studies on the subject date back to the late nineteenth century, and much later than in France, where attention to the phenomenon of generations began to grow, resulting in books following the First World War. In our country such concerns became more obvious in the early 30’s of the last century, when the Romanian Society of Philosophy organized a series of conferences on “The problem of generations”, conferences held in the auditorium of the ‘Carol I’ University Foundation and presented by some of the leading thinkers of the time. The first big “generation” moment in the evolution of the Romanian literary theory represented the critic Mircea Vulcănescu. He published a series of articles about the phenomenon of generations, culminating with the Generation study, published in the journal “Criterion” in 1934. The author based his study on Dimitrie Gusti’s monograph concept, whose work fellow he was, and defined the concept of generation from a multiple perspective, seeking to highlight all its meanings, from the biological one to the sociological, historical, psychological, cultural and economic.

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