Nicoleta Cliveţ, Gheorghe Grigurcu – conceptul critic
Gh. Grigurcu – The critical concept
The file leader of the artist-critics of the generation of the 60s, Gh. Grigurcu employs a critical language of such a lofty poetic quality that it does not leaves the impression of a metalanguage. His exegetic models do not act authoritative upon his writing; after an early passion for G. Călinescu, modelling factors as Vl. Streinu and Perpessicius interfere as well, but the true mentor is, for him, only E. Lovinescu. The critic also expressed his admiration about the exegeses of I. Negoiţescu, V. Ierunca and M. Lovinescu, seen as models of the devotion for the cause of literature, as examples of aesthetic militantism. From the new interpretative methodologies, Gh. Grigurcu makes a discrete pact with the least technical ones, as the thematism, in the continuation of which the critic can express his penchant for the engenderment of “figures of the creative spirit”.
The problem of the critic’s morality is connected, in the Lovinescian style, to that of the authority. From the chemistry of any critical authority must not lack discipline, self consistency, the poignant capacity of expression, taste, talent and, necessarily, the polemic spirit, as warrant of the capacity to protect the ethical and aesthetic ideals. The artistic predisposition, the polemic, being in the almost exclusive service of the literary chronicle, and the axiological perspective on literature are the main ingredients of Gh. Grigurcu’s writing. The 90s propels him in the vanguard of the aesthetic “revisions”, operated from an often too radical Lovinescian position.
Keywords: post-wars literary criticism, Lovinescianism, literary criticism, ethical and aesthetic militantism, polemic, axiological perspective, revisionism.
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- Grigurcu, Gheorghe, E. Lovinescu între continuatori şi uzurpatori/ E. Lovinescu, between Followers and Usurpers, Bucureşti, Ed. „Jurnalul literar“, 1997.
- Grigurcu, Gheorghe, A doua viaţă/ The Second Life , Bucureşti, Ed. Albatros, 1997.
- Grigurcu, Gheorghe, Dialoguri crude şi insolite/ Raw and Unconventional Dialogues, realizate de Gr. Scarlat, Iaşi, Ed. Timpul, 1999.
- Grigurcu, Gheorghe, Amurgul idolilor/ The Dawn of Gods, Bucureşti, Ed. Nemira, 1999.
- Grigurcu, Gheorghe, În răspăr/ Upside Down, Cluj-Napoca, Ed. Dacia, 2001.
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