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‘THEY ARE MY SONS, ALL OF THEM!’. THE MENTOR FIGURE AND THE 80 LITERARY GENERATION

Summary/Abstract: ‘They are my sons, all of them!’. The mentor figure and the 80 literary generation. The Romanian literary space of the last communist decade made visible one of the most rapid legitimation trajectories of all literary history: in five years or less, the group of young writers known as the 80 generation make the change from a ‘normal’ avant-garde to a powerful literary presence. A significant role in that trajectory is played by their mentors, placed in dominant positions of the literary field: critics and university professors, they encourage and support the 80 generation, in an effort to block the influence of the writers close to the communist ideology. The paper proposes an overview of these efforts and tries to analyze their effects in the confrontation between different literary values.

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