MATEI CĂLINESCU, CRITIC LITERAR ȘI PROZATOR
MATEI CĂLINESCU, LITERARY CRITIC AND PROSE WRITER

Summary/Abstract: In this critical essay I have been trying to define some of the most important works published by the Romanian American professor of Literary Theory from Indiana, Bloomington University, focusing on two different works, The Five Faces of Modernity, one of earliest studies on Postmodernism and on his last essay, Rereading, taking into account the fact that they had a great impact when they ve been translated to Romanian language, stronger than the impact they had on USA’s academic life. I have been witnessing his conference at the Faculty of Letters when I was a student and it had a powerful effect on me, so I am trying now both to analyze and give a tribute to the Romanian American literary critic, as well as being focused on his biography, that in his case form a continuum, as in the postmodern drawings of Escher. Last but not least I have focused on his last study, Re- reading, one of the most important essays of Literary Theory published worldwide, that has been also translated to Romanian. Never the less, I have mentioned different studies published before or after his settlement to USA, his private diaries and studies on Eugene Ionesco, Mircea Eliade, Ioan Petru Culianu, and so on, and so forth.

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