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Studies and Essays on Romance Literatures

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Studies and Essays on Romance Literatures

A Labyrinth of Interpretations

By: Rodica Grigore

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This collection of essays is a journey into 20th-century masterpieces. From Pessoa to García Márquez, these studies re-read famous works of Romance literature to highlight their deep and hidden truths, metaphorically bridging the two sides of the Atlantic.

Adopting the challenging perspective of Comparative Literature with respect to some important books of the 20th century, this collection of essays embodies a symbolic journey…

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Author: Rodica Grigore ISBN: 1-0364-4768-5 Categories: Social Sciences, Literature, Literature, Classics

Adopting the challenging perspective of Comparative Literature with respect to some important books of the 20th century, this collection of essays embodies a symbolic journey trying to find some new and unexplored meanings of certain famous novels, short stories or poems, decoding images, characters and plots in a particular way. Covering a wide range of writers, from the Romanian poet Lucian Blaga to the Portuguese Fernando Pessoa, or from the rather unknown Romanian representative of the avant-garde, Urmuz, to the great Latin American novelists Clarice Lispector, Alejo Carpentier, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez or Guillermo Cabrera Infante, the studies included in this volume re-read some masterpieces of Romance literatures in the attempt to highlight the deep and often hidden truth of these authors’ great books. This quest also tries to metaphorically cover the distance between the two sides of the Atlantic, encompassing the initiatory experience often lived both by the above-mentioned writers and their characters.

Rodica Grigore, PhD, is Associate Professor at “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Romania, where she teaches Comparative Literature. She is the author of several volumes published in Romania, such as: Of Books and Other Demons (2002), The Rhetoric of Masks in Romanian Modern Fiction (2005), In the Mirror of Literature (2011), Magical Realism in Latin American Fiction of the 20th Century (2015), Journeys in the Library (2016), The Tiger and the Star: Violence and Exile in Latin American Fiction of the 20th Century (2021). She has translated into Romanian the essays of Octavio Paz, Children of the Mire (2017), the poems of the Colombian writer Manuel Cortés Castañeda, The Mirrored Other (2006) and a collection of short stories of the American writer Andrei Codrescu, A Bar in Brooklyn (2006). She has published numerous academic articles and critical studies especially on modern literature in Romania and abroad, and is Senior Editor of “Theory in Action” (New York), an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal.

Hardback

ISBN: 1-0364-4768-5
ISBN13: 978-1-0364-4768-7
Date of Publication: 2025-05-20

Ebook

ISBN: 1-0364-4769-3
ISBN13: 978-1-0364-4769-4
Date of Publication: 2025-05-20

Categories: Social Sciences, Literature, Literature, Classics

Pages: 271

Subject Codes:

BIC: DNF, DSB, DSBH
THEMA: DNL, DSB, DSBJ, DSBH

Pages: 271

"There is no doubt after reading these essays that Rodica Grigore is a European scholar who knows a great deal about Latin American literature and has restored a rightful place for some Romanian writers. These essays open new doors for us to approach our literature. They are simply illuminating, insightful, thought-provoking and beautifully written."
- Manuel Cortés Castañeda Eastern Kentucky University, USA
"These splendid essays by Rodica Grigore—that restore Romanian literature to a place of honour alongside Latin American literature—appear to emerge, if you will, from the ruminations and wisdom of several lifetimes, such is their passion, erudition, and sweep."
- Ali Shehzad Zaidi State University of New York at Canton, USA

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Rodica Grigore

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