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1945 critic si teoretician literar literary critic and theoretician

Anton Holban - Complexul luciditatii, 1972; Caragiale sau varsta moderna a literaturii, 1976; Perspective critice, 1978; Biblioteci deschise, 1986

Anton Holban - The Lucidity Complex, 1972; Caragiale or the Modem Life of Literature, 1976; Critical Perspectives, 1978; Open Libraries, 1986

Al. Calinescu este, se stie, unul din promotorii poeticii la noi, asadar al unei “teorii interne a literaturii”, dar al unei poetici - cu propriile-i cuvinte - “aplicate, vii, constructive, nu al unei masinarii de vehiculat abstractiuni”. Preocupat cu precadere - spre a nu zice in exclusivitate de proza (optiunea pare sa tina si de temperamentul mai “realist” al autorului), comentariul sau critic ajunge repede la esente formale si conexiuni de ordin teoretic. (Mircea Martin)


It is a known fact that Al. Calinescu is a promoter of the new poetics, therefore of an “inner theory of literature,” but a poetics which is - in his own words - “applied, living, constructive, not a machine to use abstractions.” Mostly, if not exclusively, preoccupied with prose (this choice seems to have to do with the author's more “realistic” personality), his critical comments quickly reach formal essences and theoretical connections. (Mircea Martin)