LITERATURE AND LITERARY CRITICISM ACCORDING TO AN “INCOMPLETE DISBELIEVER”, EMIL CIORAN

Authors

  • Magda WÄCHTER Romanian Academy in Cluj-Napoca. Contact address: < magdawachter@yahoo.com>

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2017.1.20

Keywords:

Cioran, literature, literary criticism, lyricism, novel, philosophy, disbelief.

Abstract

Literature and Literary Criticism according to an Incomplete Disbeliever”, Emil Cioran. The present study analyses the views of Cioran, as an “incomplete believer” upon literature and literary criticism, as he defines himself. Despite his pretended retic about these cultural fields, the philosopher, often considered a writer, both in Romania and in France, is a passionate literature reader, as well as the author of lyrical, highly expressive essays, convinced of the ontological value of literature and arts.

REZUMAT. Literatura şi critica literară în viziunea unui „sceptic incomplet”, Emil Cioran. Studiul de faţă analizează viziunea lui Cioran, ca „sceptic incomplet”, aşa cum se autodefineşte el, asupra literaturii şi a criticii literare. În pofida reticenţei declarate faţă de aceste domenii culturale, filosoful, adesea considerat, atât în România, cât şi în Franţa, un scriitor, este un cititor pasionat de literatură şi autorul unor eseuri lirice de o expresivitate remarcabilă, încredinţat de valoarea ontologică a literaturii şi a artei.

Cuvinte cheie: Emil Cioran, literatură, critică literară, lirism, roman, filosofie, scepticism.

Author Biography

Magda WÄCHTER, Romanian Academy in Cluj-Napoca. Contact address: < magdawachter@yahoo.com>

Magda Wächter is a researcher at ˮSextil Puşcariu” Institute of Linguistics and Literary History of the Romanian Academy in Cluj-Napoca. She has a BA in Philology (1992) and one in Philosophy (2000) from ˮBabeş-Bolyai” University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and a PhD in Romanian literature from the University of Bucharest, Romania (2006). Contact address: < magdawachter@yahoo.com>

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Published

2017-03-24

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WÄCHTER, M. (2017). LITERATURE AND LITERARY CRITICISM ACCORDING TO AN “INCOMPLETE DISBELIEVER”, EMIL CIORAN. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia, 62(1), 265–272. https://doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2017.1.20

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