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Sorin Alexandrescu
Literary Critic and Theoretician
Professor at Amsterdam University
Born: August 18, 1937, in Bucharest. Son of Corina Eliade, sister of
the Romanian professor, historian of religious and writer, Mircea Eliade
Studies
- 1959 - graduate of the Faculty of Philology, Bucharest University
Activity
- emigrated in the years '70 in Netherlands, where he works as professor at
the University of Amsterdam, hosting one of the biggest department of
Romanian studies from Europe
- dedicated his activity to the semiotics and history of ideas
- after 1990, comes back to Romania and commits himself to the restoration
and modernization of the Central University Library, destroyed by a
devastating fire during the Romanian Revolution of December 1989
Published works (selection)
- before leaving the country, published, in 1969 a monograph dedeicated to
the American writer William Faulkner
- Dickens in Romania. A Bibliography for the 150th Anniversary (with Alexandru
Dutu) (1962)
- William Faulkner, 1969; revised edition in French, Paris, 1971
- The Logic of Personages, 1973
- Logique du personnage: reflexions sur l'univers faulknerien (1974)
- Dichters uit Roemenie (Poets of Romania), 1976
- Round 1300 studies of philology and medieval literature (eds. Sorin
Alexandrescu, Fernand Drijkoningen, Willem Noomen) (1985)
- Roemenie. Verhalen van deze tijd (Prose of Romania), 1988
- Hemel en Aarde. Werelden van verbeeldin (Heaven and Earth), 1991
- Rumanien im Umbruch : Chancen und Probleme der europäischen Integration (eds. Ilina Gregori und Angelika
Schaser) (1993)
- Richard Rorty, 1995
- Figurative of the Art. Beginning and End. 20tn Century in Romania, 1998
- The Romanian Paradox, 1998 (in Romanian)
- Identitate în ruptura. Mentalitati românesti postbelice, Editura Univers, 2000
(Identity and Breach, Postwar Romanian Mentalities)
- La modernite a l'Est. 13 apercus sur la litterature roumaine, Editura Paralela 45, 2000
Critic References
- Sorin Alexandrescu approaches history from the perspective of the
comparatist, the stylist, and the political analyst, because his way of seeing things is not merely literary-artistic, but obviously that of an authority on modern political science.
(Mircea Martin)
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