Criticul literar ca profesor de libertate
Criticul literar ca profesor de libertate

Summary/Abstract: In Romania, since the mid-1960s, literary criticism has been much more than a scholastic endeavor. Literary criticism epitomized the most of the independent social and cultural thinking of the epoch. On the one hand, its ethical and pedagogical stakes implied a strategy of perpetual delimitation from the official nationalist-Communist ideology. But, on the other hand, Romanian literary critics felt compelled to argue for the value of personal agency, which they perceived as felt foundational for the European traditions of intellectual and moral freedom, against the overwhelming influence of “anti-humanist” Western neo-Marxian and deconstructionist scholars and public intellectuals. The paper follows the unfolding of this line of argument on the basis of the theoretical rehabilitation of the instance of the personalized author as articulated by Eugen Simion, one of the major intellectual representatives of the so-called Generation of the 1960s.

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