The Influence of the French “New Criticism” in The Romanian Literary Space

Abstract

The metamorphosis of post-war Romanian literary criticism can be described starting from the critical model proposed between the World Wars by E. Lovinescu and the “Lovinescian” literary critics, together with the modeling suggestions that came from the French “New Criticism”/Nouveau Critique. What is, nevertheless, characteristic of the Romanian criticism, is the permanent struggle to defend the autonomy of the aesthetics (on the background of the commanding Marxism), and of the axiological judgment.