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Hegemonia EGO.Proză în câmpul literar românesc de după 2000: o analiză sociologică a politicilor editoriale
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The Hegemony of EGO.Proză Collection in the Romanian Literary Field After the 2000s:
A Sociological Analysis of the Publishing Houses’ Politics
Abstract: In this paper, I aim to answer the question: “What has made EGO.Prose the longest-running collection of Romanian prose in the post-communist era?” Having more than 20 years, EGO.Prose has become a symbolic institution regarding the autochthonous fiction production, shaping the profile of generations of young writers, starting with the 2000s generation. Nevertheless, although the Polirom collection represents a benchmark for contemporary Romanian prose, literary critics have often lamented the stagnation of literary innovation. In search of an explanation for this undeclared crisis in literature, I propose a distant reading analysis (Moretti), whereby the critical eye focuses not on individual authors, but on editorial collectives. I believe that the evolution of the EGO. Prose collection is symptomatic of the overall development of Romanian prose. Therefore, this paper will focus on the sociological analysis of how this prose collection established itself in the literary landscape of the 2000s and beyond. Such an analysis requires the use of literary sociological tools to highlight the mediations and stakes of reception (Sapiro), and to expose the way in which both the general public and part of the critics validated and supported the symbolic capital (Bourdieu) of the Polirom publishing house’s collection. My main argument is sociological: if in its early years EGO.Proză showcased innovative and original authors to the fore (Adrian Schiop, Ioana Baetica, Radu Pavel Gheo), they subsequently formed an audience that responded positively to a rather homogeneous prose formula. Thus, future generations of writers no longer necessarily relied on originality, but followed the trend indicated by financial profitability. A focused analysis of an editorial collection can explain broader socio-cultural phenomena and provide greater clarity on a vaguely recognized fictional crisis.
Keywords: EGO.Proză, prose collection, Polirom, literary sociology, distant reading, critical reception.
Citation suggestion: Tohătan, Horațiu. “Hegemonia EGO.Proză în câmpul literar românesc de după 2000: o analiză sociologică a politicilor editoriale”. Transilvania, no.3 (2026): 29-39.
https://doi.org/10.51391/trva.2026.3.04.
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