G. CĂLINESCU AND THE ANECDOTAL SPIRIT
G. CĂLINESCU AND THE ANECDOTAL SPIRIT

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this research project is to analyze the anecdotal spirit of G. Călinescu that includes him in the line of the greatest storytellers of our culture. Capturing not only the frames of the literary works, but also the human essence of their authors, G. Călinescu has the gift of creating narrative plots that are inherent in the critical act. The role of the anecdote is, on the one hand, to humanize the critical discourse and decrease the distance between the reader and the writers, usually seen as unattainable figures, and, on the other hand, the anecdote has, undoubtedly, a playful dimension. Through his monumental pages, G. Călinescu emphasizes the universal tendency of men to crop the quotidian sequences of other people’s habits and to integrate them in the largest form of narration which is Life.

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