Abstract:
The assimilation of Alex Ștefănescu in the close circle of literary critics from “România literară” publication highlights not only the acknowledgment of his value in the field, but also the convergence of his synchronized position in the same direction as Maiorescu and E. Lovinescu and in opposition to the protochronistic criticism. A few years from Ceaușescu’s July Thesis of 1971, when he tried a revival of the party spirit of socialist realism, but from a nationalist communist platform not from an internationally Soviet one, our culture has been ideologically polarized. During the communist regime of his first maturity, Alex Ștefănescu has seen his criticism personality highly constrained by the prohibition and the commands of that era; after 1989, the freedom of his writings had almost spectacular results. Noting the acuity and the vivacity of his publicist writing, let’s notice the overall perspective, inclusive that Alex Ștefănescu operates with as a literary critic. He wasn’t one’s generation critic (although he was close to the ‘60’s Generation), nor the critic of an era (although his personality “bloomed” after 1989’s Revolution), but as a summary and synthetically said: he was a literature’s critic.
