M. Blecher și literatura evreilor din România interbelică. O perspectivă polisistemică
M. Blecher and the Jewish Writers in Interwar Romania. A Polysystemic Perspective
M. Blecher (1909-1938) is a Jewish-Romanian writer from a generation that saw a booming expansion of the Jewish presence in Romanian literature. Trying to explain this expanding presence in the interwar years, the article turns to Itamar Even-Zohar’s polysystems theory, discussing several types of motivation for change in Romanian interwar literature and for the emergence of several models of literature in regard to local tradition. Jewish writers may be seen as either shunning local cultural affiliation in their disputation of traditional literature (the avantgarde writers) or as trying to profit from a naturalistic turn in 20th century Romanian novel to marginal settings and dispossessed groups (the social novelists). Quoting Camelia Crăciun’s idea of a unified strategy for a group of JewishRomanian writers, the article sets out to evaluate M. Blecher’s particular response to the local tradition of the novel, on the one hand, and to the strategy of his Jewish-Romanian colleagues, on the other.
Keywords: Romanian literature as polysystem, Jewish writers in interwar Romania, M. Blecher and other JewishRomanian writers, Jewish cultural elements in M. Blecher’s work, Jewish-Romanian strategies for a social naturalistic novel
