Le jeune Eugène Ionesco et le canon littéraire de l’après-guerre: un parcours critique d’Eugen Simion

Abstract

In the post-totalitarian age, Eugen Ionescu, a writer which has not been included in the Communist
textbooks due to the well-known ideological reasons, turns into the favorite subject of critical analysis in various
literary studies of the period, focusing his work and dealing with the difficult issue of its aesthetic classification
according to the traditional canonic criteria. Approaching “the young” Eugen Ionescu’s spiritual biography,
Eugen Simion’s homonym essay uses remarkable hermeneutic techniques to point out the writer’s obsessive
themes encoded in his biographic and literary discourses as well as the intricacies of his negative attitude