THE SELF-IMAGE OF THE ROMANIANS IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD
THE SELF-IMAGE OF THE ROMANIANS IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD

Summary/Abstract: The Self-Image of the Romanians in the Interwar Period. In the interwar period an important number of authors investigated identity in terms of national character and what define us from this point of view. The first author analyzed in this study is Dumitru Drăghicescu, but the national specificity was also a key concept in the work of Mihail Ralea. Another author interesting in elaborating a Romanian ontological model in the interwar years was Mircea Vulcănescu, and the most representative and best-known author of the national ontology, who encapsulated the nation in the so-called stylistic matrix, was Lucian Blaga. The reflections on the national specificity are, in this period, focused on how Romanians are and why they are the way they are. The inventory of traits, the promotion of certain symbols (‘mioritic space’), and the allegorical descriptions as parodies of contemporary theories of the national specificity, all these are ways in which the Romanian national character was outlined in the most prolific and productive stage, the interwar years.

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