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NICOLAE MANOLESCU - CRITICISM AND LUCIDITY
NICOLAE MANOLESCU - CRITICISM AND LUCIDITY

Author(s): Iulian Boldea
Subject(s): Poetry, Novel, Short Story, Romanian Literature, Philology, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: criticism; history of literature; essay; synthesis; analysis;

Summary/Abstract: Nicolae Manolescu is a critic who lucidly questions his own condition, reflection on himself and reflection on others being the relevant resources of moral self-scopy. For Nicolae Manolescu, criticism has an uncertain, anarchic status, as it approaches the meanings of the work asymptotically, without being able to reveal its inexhaustible wealth of semantic configurations, unable to dismantle the subtle mechanisms and the multitude of aspects that make it up. The global reading of the literary work is a chimera, exegesis assuming at best the role of approximating the meanings and inner workings. Situated at the intersection of opposing categories, between Apollonian and Dionysian, the writing seems weakened by an uncertainty derived from the steady exercise of lucidity, from mutations and "revisions" with a Lovinescian flavour, Manolescu's critical statements repudiating any categorical allure, the demonstrative air, the learned, sufficient bearing. The rejection of apodictic, learned, rigid and reductionist affirmation has the problematic allure of the phrase, the methodical doubt, the dilemmatic questioning.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 34
  • Page Range: 17-22
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English
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