CLASICISMUL FRANCEZ. MECANISMELE CONFIGURĂRII CONCEPTULUI
Identities of French Classicism in Tudor Vianu's Literary Criticism

Summary/Abstract: French Classicism is a notion that, through the instability of its own meanings and the "mistrust" of an exegesis that systematically questioned its conceptual legitimacy, has undoubtedly assumed a difficult destiny. Permanent approximations of literary history – always hesitant – in defining the classical paradigm prove, in fact, the difficulty with which the specialists have managed and continue to manage, to this day, the identity of Louis XIV’s epoch, thus placing it under the inevitable sign of the aporia. We will follow, in this article, the evolutionary lines of the genesis of French classicism, the multiple identities that it borrowed before "finalizing" – as a notion – after 1800, the turning points of the dynamic of the current, all of them generating, each time, important theoretical debates on the aesthetic "laws" that articulated the masterpieces of Corneille, Molière, Racine or Pascal.

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