Fragmente din Manualul bunului spectator
Excerpts From the Good Spectator's Manual

Summary/Abstract: În 1934, a reformative figure of the European theatre printed in Bucharest a volume of critical essays entitled No, where he demolished several remarkable personalities of the Romanian literature, such as Tudor Arghezi, Ion Barbu and Camil Petrescu. The iconoclastic Eugen Ionescu would recidivate, one year later, by applying the same method to the patriarch of the French literature in a delicious essay called The Grotesque and Tragic Life of Victor Hugo. Ionescu believed, much like his predecessor to the Académie française, Jacques Paulhan, that “negative critique has better effects on an author than alcohol does on fruit.”

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