The Battles of Romanian Literary Criticism
The Battles of Romanian Literary Criticism

Summary/Abstract: A radiography of Romanian literary criticism in the first decades of communism, Alex Goldiş’s book brings out an entirely new outlook on the subject. Inventorizing the ways of critiquing and the ideas present in the literary journals and gazettes of the time, he grasps the film of the literary debates or battles between 1948-1971 in a rigorous and ironic manner. Although the impressionist method was blamed for its shortcomings, excessive reliance on creativity and resistance to method, it was auspicious for a whole generation of critics.

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