A RE-READING OF THE TRANSFIGURATION OF ROMANIA –A DEFENCE OF A NEW EASTERN LATINITY
A RE-READING OF THE TRANSFIGURATION OF ROMANIA –A DEFENCE OF A NEW EASTERN LATINITY

Summary/Abstract: Cioran’s vitalistic youth affords to mock most of the Romanian features, in the volume Schimbarea la faţă a României/ The Transfiguration of Romania, while allowing them the expected advantage. Undoubtedly, in line with D. Cantemir, Ion Heliade-Rădulescu, B.P. Haşdeu, Const. Rădulescu-Motru, G. Călinescu, C. Noica, and even N. Steinhardt, concerning the national specificity, the author tackles a Romanian apology in fact, with the air dissolving the Romanian frailties, at least for the future. The cultural synthesis, metaphysical vision, political criticism, sociological analysis, and especially the defense regarding the perfection of the Romanian features, which can never be expressed in well-defined patterns, this support “book” keeps a certain topicality, integrating itself by the well-cited transience, both into the postmodern paradigm, as well as to a series of further prolific readings.

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