MERIDIAN CRITIC No 2 (Volume 31) 2018 Mircea Eliade şi Generaţia Marii Uniri. Corespondenţă cu scriitori şi critici literari (II) Sabina FÎNARU Universitatea „Ştefan cel Mare” din Suceava
[email protected] ______________________________________________________________________ Abstract: Mircea Eliade began his intellectual formation and rose to prominence in the years immediately following the Great Union, an age dominated by important polemics concerning the relation between traditionalism and modernism, ethnicity and Europeanism, as well as the means of artistic expression of the national specific character and the rise of new aesthetic directions. Eliade’s correspondence with outstanding writers, theorists, and critics of the Great Union generation is a reflection of the recognition of the intellectual, literary, and ethical worth conveyed by the younger contemporary’s journal articles, essays, and novels; it refers to the cultural turmoil of that time, to the texts that generated it and to the personalities that orchestrated it, also evoked in subsequent memorialistic writings. He stood by his own vision of literature, which was close to that of the modernist group, but also open to tradition - like Şerban Cioculescu, Camil Petrescu, and Cezar Petrescu, to whom I shall refer in my paper, Mircea Eliade and the Great Union Generation. Correspondence with Writers and Literary Critics. Keywords: polemic, traditionalism, modernism, ethnicity, Europeanism, interwar. Înnoirea canonului etico-estetic Mircea Eliade a debutat, s-a format şi s-a afirmat în epoca imediat următoare Marii Uniri (1921 squ.), dominată de importante polemici legate de relaţia dintre tradiţionalism şi modernism, etnicitate şi europenism, de mijloacele de exprimare artistică a specificului naţional şi de afirmare a unor noi direcţii estetice.