Images of Finland in Interwar Romania
Images of Finland in Interwar Romania

Summary/Abstract: Cultural and diplomatic relations between Romania and Finland have not been numerous throughout time; yet, on the basis of obvious similarities from a geopolitical point of view, the two have had the same comparison scale to the spheres of influence of the Second World War. Two “exotic” countries from a cultural point of view, Romania and Finland have become acquainted to each other through a delicate and fractured process at different times in history. Raoul Bossy is the key figure who brought the two cultures together in the interwar period. Apart from Bossy, the present article discusses two other interwar personalities who had an important role in the reception of Finnish culture and literature in Romania: I. Simionescu and Horia Oprişan.

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