GRIGORE CUGLER: EPIGONISM SAU CONTINUITATE DE VIZIUNE MODERNĂ
GRIGORE CUGLER: EPIGONISM OR CONTINUITY OF MODERN VISION

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to focus on the critical reception of Grigore Cugler, one of the representative writers for the Romanian avant-garde in exile. The Romanian critical discourses and articles frequently emphasise the epigonism of Cugler’s texts by comparative approaches with those belonging to the precursor of the Romanian avant-garde, Urmuz. This represents one of the manifestations of the marginalized avant-garde in the Romanian literature of the interwar period, marginalization established by the dominant conservative literary criticism. Consequently, the paper argues the epigonic labeling often associated with Grigore Cugler, placing the writer in-between two dichotomic types of critical reception: epigonism and a genuine continuity of the modern vision. The specific context of the avant-garde in exile may determine the particularization of the literary discourse, resulting in the originality and individuality of Grigore Cugler’s volumes. This aspect highlights the individual literary evolution of the writer, far removed from the established central model of the Romanian avant garde, Urmuz, with whom Grigore Cugler shares the modern vision that implies a spectacular dimension of unreality and absurd.

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