THE NATIONAL MAGAZINES OF POETRY FROM THE PERIOD BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS
THE NATIONAL MAGAZINES OF POETRY FROM THE PERIOD BETWEEN THE WORLD WARS

Summary/Abstract: The First World War meant for Dobrudja, as well as for the whole country, a long series of misfortunes. The occupation of the whole area by the troops of the foreign armies, forced a part of the population to follow the hard and painful road of the refuge toward Moldavia. For those who remained, the circumstances were not favourable. Although it was for a short period of time, the foreign occupation ruined the Romanian economy, so that to the moral suffering, added that related to shortcoming and poverty. Recording these true things helps us to better understand, more easily, the state of things existing on the national and cultural plan, soon after the end of the war. However, a characteristic of the whole period between the World Wars, was the rapid development and the increasing in scale, registered by the cultural domain, after this traumatizing moment. For all those who achieve a global image of the literary Romanian publishing in the XXth century, there is no doubt that the period between the Wars represents the moment of maximum development of the literary press. The numeric development characterized the publication of the literary magazines, ever since the beginning of the century and between the two conflagrations and this process attained its highest perimeter. During this period, not only the big centers, but also many towns had their own literary and artistic magazines. The essence of this phenomenon consisted in the fact that, once the number of literary magazines had increased, the literary press achieved a great diversification, in the plan of aesthetic options. In two decades and more, publications of diverse ideologic and artistic orientations were printed and supported some opposition reports, such as: Sburătorul, Viața Românească (The Romanian Life), Gândirea (The Reflection), Contimporanul, Integral, Bluze Albastre (Blue Blouses), Reporter (The Reporter). Following different principles, each one of these magazines, without representing a close circle, were based upon certain collaborators and thus the moment came, when some literary currents movements, such as: the modernism, the realism, the thoughtism and the avan-garde, were promoted into the Romanian literary life.

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