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Mircea Eliade şi Lucian Blaga în Corespondenţă: afinităţi elective
Mircea Eliade and Lucian Blaga in Correspondence: Elective Affinities

Author(s): Sabina FÎNARU
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Romanian Literature
Published by: UNIVERSITATEA »ȘTEFAN CEL MARE« SUCEAVA
Keywords: correspondence; reception; interwar period; polemic;

Summary/Abstract: The present paper, Mircea Eliade and Lucian Blaga in Correspondence: Elective Affinities, analyzes the intellectual relationship between the two writers, starting from their correspondence and focusing on the mutual reception of their works as mentioned in it, as well as on the evocation of these works in Mircea Eliade’s memoirs. It specifies the cultural context, their position towards the debates of the time on the concepts regarding ethnic expression in art and orthodoxism as well as their orientation towards common sources of inspiration in ethnography, folklore and myth. Their vision of the world and of literature, their themes of reflection, their intellectual openness towards Europe highlight the structural affinity between the two writers, philosophers, essayists and publicists.

  • Issue Year: XXXIII/2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 137-149
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Romanian
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