Vocation et occasion dans le cénacle de « Sburãtorul » (1919-1943)
Vocation and Occasion in E. Lovinescu’s Literary Circle (1919-1943)

Summary/Abstract: One of the most important literary critics of the interwar period, E. Lovinescu was the renowned host of the Sburătorul literary circle, which ran in Bucharest for over twenty years. According to this group’s two values, the critic was able to define the specific behavior of the man of letters. True vocation is validated, Lovinescu believes, through a prior acknowledgment of the persistent and incessant effort and labor demanded by the production of literature. However, the polarization subsumed by these definitions is not maintained at the level of community behaviors too, as the amphitryon of Sburătorul equally promotes literary figures that are driven by vocation and literary figures that are only circumstantially struck by fortunate occasion.

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