Discursul prefațial al lui Ovid S. Crohmălniceanu între cheie de lectură și exercițiu critic
Ovid S. Crohmălniceanu’s discourse of prefaces between reading key and critical exercise

Summary/Abstract: The prefacial discourse (or the original term discours préfaciel introduced by Frédéric Mittérand) proves to be a very difficult task, because it is an extremely meaningful element of paratext. Not only does it provide valid information about a certain literary text, but also it is meant to establish a connection between the book and its potential readers. One important question about prefaces in general and Ovid S. Crohmălniceanu’s prefaces in particular is if they can be considered an act of literary criticism or merely a eulogy. We are interested in following the strategies and criteria used in some of the prefaces written for several books of foreign writers. We also try to establish how well these prefaces ‘translate’ the writers’ intentions and how objective or subjective is the critical approach, if there is one.

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