Cornel Regman – The Critical Concept

Abstract

Cornel Regman is a critical spirit with a tendency towards finding faults, both at a general level (regarding the mentality or literary morals) or at the individual level. His critical concept is founded on Maiorescu’s criticism, with suggestions from Eugen Lovinescu and from the first ‘Lovinescian’ critics. The new criticism has no effect on him, as the autochthonous exegesis is seen as strong enough to ensure the organic evolution of the genre. His critical vision is similar to Serban Cioculescu’s conception by his refusal of the ‘impressionism’ of the ‘creative criticism’ and by his support for the objective and axiological perspective on literature, from the point of view of Cartesian rationalism.