FROM VOLTAIRE TO CIORAN
FROM VOLTAIRE TO CIORAN

Summary/Abstract: The history of French-Romanian cultural relations is tri-centenarian and biunivocal. It covers all levels of post-Illuminist intellectual preoccupation (literature, historiography, human and physical geography, arts, linguistics, fundamental scientific research, journalism, etc), without generating a vassalage relationship, as asserted by a common pre-conceived idea. "The small Paris" and the “Orient's Belgium” have also considerably influenced French culture, from Ronsard to Emil Cioran, and continue to do so. Diachronically, the most objective witness of this reciprocal infusing is the history of translations, which have considerably contributed to the crystallization of the modern Romanian language and literature, on the one hand, and to general social progress, on the other. A concrete and relevant example, therefore, of communication and communion.

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