La visita di Filippo Tommaso Marinetti a Bucarest nel maggio del 1930 è un'ottima occasione, più protocollare che programmatica, che ha reso finalmente possibile la magia dell'incontro e del contatto personale fra alcuni dei maggiori rappresentanti delle due avanguardie. In the second part of the book, this taxonomy of Power is applied to four key novels in the context of Romanian 'literary crossroads', showing how novelistic fiction not only assume a critical and subversive position against the excess of Power, but also unveils our fragility when experiencing History. After offering a critical approach to the concepts of Power defined in the social, political and philosophical fields, it articulates the relations of Power imprinted in literary discourse within a typology of four categories. The first part of the study is theoretical: it presents some of the most prominent theories of Power, from Plato, Machiavelli, Nietzsche to Weber, Dahl, Lukes, Parsons, Bourdieu or Foucault. It shows that, in a society facing the excess of power in its various forms, novelistic fiction mediates knowledge about societal Power structures and uses specific strategies to subvert and denounce them. Consequently, the present volume displays a generous array of interpretations and scientific enterprises.Īt the core of this book lies the relation between Power (as socio-political phenomenon) and the novel (as literary discourse). While being in residence there he managed the sophisticated administrative apparatus and invited six Romanian academics to deliver lectures on various topics: linguistics and etymology, literary world’s specificities, contemporary Romanian literature, and Romanian folklore.

Romania at Lund University is a captivating initiative which testifies to the tenacious activity deployed by the visiting Romanian lecturer, Lucian Vasile Bâgiu, at Lund University, Sweden, during three years. The essays edited by Lucian Vasile Bâgiu offer a comprehensive image of Romania’s language, literature and culture, from its early beginnings up to present days. In the volume Romania at Lund University Lucian Vasile Bâgiu edits the texts of seven scientific conferences held by seven Romanian guest lecturers at Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, as a result of seven travel and research grants acquired by Romanian Studies Department from various Swedish academic funds.

Pădurea spânzuraţilor by Liviu Rebreanu