Garabet Ibrăileanu
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Garabet Ibrăileanu (Romanian pronunciation:
Biography
Ibrăileanu was born into a family of
In his first major essay (1908), Spiritul critic în cultura românească (roughly: "Selective Attitudes in Romanian Culture"), Ibrăileanu analysed the trends in Romanian literature from cca. 1840 to cca. 1880, trying to establish what had been the characteristics of original works. This is the first draft of his theory of selection, through which he determined the relationship between social context and artists' subjectivism (using it to explain why original artists had been ignored in favor of conformist ones of lesser talent). His thesis found its first major critic in modernist figure Eugen Lovinescu.
He expanded the idea in works of literary criticism that are still influential: in 1909 - Scriitori şi curente ("Writers and Trends"); in 1912 - Opera literară a d-lui Vlahuță ("Mr. Vlahuță's Literary Works"), a doctorate thesis that featured one of Ibrăileanu's most quoted chapters, Literatura și societatea ("Literature and Society"); in 1930 - Studii literare ("Literary Studies"), containing his other major writing, Creaţie și analiză ("Creation and Analysis"). He also authored a volume of aphorisms (1930), and a novel - Adela (1933).
Ibrăileanu died in Bucharest in 1936, and was buried at Eternitatea Cemetery in Iași.[2] Denied admission to the Romanian Academy throughout his life, Garabet Ibrăileanu received posthumous membership in 1948.
Notes
- ^ "Din istoria CNRV". cnrv.ro (in Romanian). Roman-Vodă National College. Retrieved April 22, 2021.
- ^ "Garabet Ibrăileanu". www.eternitycemetery144.ro (in Romanian). Eternitatea Cemetery. Retrieved April 22, 2021.