Le classicisme français dans la critique littéraire de la génération roumaine de 1848. Radiographies d’un « malentendu »
French Classicism in the Literary Criticism of the Romanian Generation of 1848: Radiographies of “Misreading”

Summary/Abstract: The Romanian generation of 1848 was oneof the most receptive generations regarding theFrench classical episteme and its esthetical principles.From Gheorghe Asachi or Ion Heliade Rădulescu toGrigore Alexandrescu or Alexandru Odobescu, theautochthonous writers have fervently pronouncedthemselves for and/or against the French Classicism,which has become the programmatic scope forthe legitimation of their own literary or ideologicaloptions. Both the compliance and the controversybetween the Romanian literary universe and theFrench classical dogma repeatedly hide some situa-tions where the misreading works (are more or lessdeliberate) as a legitimate mechanism, “capable” ofmotivating the orientations which were supportedby important names of the literary universe in orderto be enforced on the cultural horizon

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