Biografia romanțată, alternativă în cercetarea filologică? Studiu de caz: George Cornilă-Hasdeu. Duhuri

Abstract

The present paper continues my previous interest in alternatives in philological research which allow us interpreting the life and the work of a classical author from different angles. As I wrote in some other previous contexts, the starting point of my assumption is that the reception of literature is the result of continuous negotiations and critical changes, aiming 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 traditional philologic research, thus becoming a useful hermeneutic instrument for better understanding the personality and, therefore, the specific of the literary text. I am also interested in identifying the advantages and disadvantages of such an unusual approach and which are the limits of such an attempt, not officially unapproved by specialists. The theoretical reflections are tested on Bogdan Petriceicu-Hasdeu’s work in order to see if such a re-reading can provide us a fresh, credible image of an important Romanian author.