Maiorescianismul – constantă în atitudinea critică
Titu Maiorescu’s Influence – A Constant of the Critical Attitude

Summary/Abstract: Born in the Great Union year – 1918 – and educated in the academic atmosphere of the University of Cluj-Sibiu, Eugen Todoran remained attached, throughout his life, to the great culture and the great values that he later promoted in his work. As a professor at the West University of Timișoara, he formed generations of Romanian literature specialists, able to study, understand and evaluate the major works of literature, that is, valuable literature. The present study – Titu Maiorescu’s Influence, a Constant of the Critical Attitude – highlights an essential feature of Eugen Todoran’s activity, that is to follow the line of critical activity traced in Romanian literature by Titu Maiorescu. It is no coincidence that the first article written by Eugen Todoran, in high school, was about Titu Maiorescu. Later, during maturity, he wrote a book about the creator of Romanian literary criticism entitled Maiorescu (1977). In evaluating the literary work, Eugen Todoran emphasises the aesthetic value of the work as it was theorized and argued for by Titu Maiorescu. The studies dedicated to the work of Mihai Eminescu and Lucian Blaga prove it. A true monograph, Eugen Todoran’s extensive study shows the way Titu Maiorescu became a well-known literary critic and the reason he is a model for others, a school founder, the creator of a new direction, of the modernization of Romanian culture, seen as a blending of national values with European culture.

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