CERCUL LITERAR DE LA SIBIU. DESTINE FRÂNTE – DESTINE ÎMPLINITE
SIBIU’S LITERARY CIRCLE. BROKEN DESTINIES – ACHIEVED DESTINIES

Summary/Abstract: This study focuses on the volume ‘Sibiu’s Literary Circle. Broken Destinies – Achieved Destinies’, whose author, PhD. Emeritus Univ. Prof. Alexandru Ruja, refers to the Literary Circle from Sibiu, a modern literary group, one of the most famous literary groups in the history of Romanian literature, formed by students of the ‘King Ferdinand’ University of Cluj, located in Sibiu due to the historical conditions of the Vienna Dictate, a group that marked an important moment in the synchronization of the Romanian literature with the European literature. The members of the circle accomplished a valuable synthesis between the Maiorescian junimism literary current and Lovinescu’s creative direction. They assumed a program designed to promote the autonomy of aesthetics, advocating for an axiological critique. The Manifesto and the Journal of the Literary Circle are presented in the first section of the book (p. 13-48), while in the more extensive second part (p. 49-556), the monographic profiles of the main writers who represented the sphere of the Literary Circle (Victor Iancu, St. Aug. Doinaș, Radu Stanca, Ion Negoițescu, Eugen Todoran, Ovidiu Cotruș, Deliu Petroiu, Ion D. Sîrbu) are analysed under the paradigm ‘broken destinies – achieved destinies’.

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