Abstract:
The starting point of the present paper is the question how can we re-read the life and work of a canonic writer, already re-interpreted in various and exquisite studies and books, which developed subtle and hued approaches. Accepting that the reception of a work is the result of continuous negotiations and critical changes, we aim at proving that the recent forms of the so-called subjective criticism (docufiction, biographic metafiction, fictional biography and so on) can be a reliable alternative to the philologic research, thus becoming a useful hermeneutic instrument for better understanding the personality and, therefore, the specific of the literary text. In fashion in the European and North American academic field, the debates related to these hybrid research forms underline the need of accepting different modalities of investigating literature, leading to some borderline works which explore literature by means of fiction. For this reason, we re-visit George Bacovia's life and work from the angle of subjective criticism, to see if such a challenging approach can offer a fresh and plausible image of this important Romanian poet.
