DESPRE RELAŢIILE LITERARE ROMÂNO-FRANCEZE
The relationship between Romanian and French literatures

Author(s): Constantin Pricop
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura Vasiliana ’98
Summary/Abstract: This paper illustrates the view that literary history is not a compact linear construct that comes from the past and goes into the future evenly. It is a sequence of moments of uneven meaning, showing periods of change or stagnation. This paper aims to identify some significant moments in the history of Romanian-French collaboration. While it is typically mediatized as an evem and glorious process, this very tradition is questionable. Despite some rebellious voices – e.g. Nicolae Iorga, who would not stand for the imitative condition of Romanian culture, or Benjamin Fundoianu, who urged Romanian writers to become artistically independent – there were some instances of genuine collaboration (e.g. interwar surrealists such as Gherasim Luca and Gellu Naum). And then there came the eighties with the shift towards the English vein.

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