DEPĂŞIREA AVANGARDEI ÎN OPERA LUI EMIL IVĂNESCU
The Surpassing of the Avant-garde in Emil Ivănescu’s Work

Summary/Abstract: The work of Emil Ivănescu, published in a critical edition six decades after the author’s death, was sporadically and insufficiently received by the public. The volume, released in 2006, contains the most valuable section of his texts, from an aesthetic point of view: two dramatic plays, a literary journal and some prose fragments. Being written in a previous time to the emergence of the existentialist philosophy and of the Theatre of the Absurd, the Emil Ivănescu’s texts anticipate the evolution of the literary tendencies associated with these cultural and aesthetic manifestations. Features of the later modernism – the antiliterature, the absurd seen as an aesthetic category and the cultural impasse – are convergent in his work with avant la lettre postmodernist devices – inter and metatextuality – cultivated with the avant-garde conscience of the necessity to absolve literature from conventionalism.

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