Intellectuals and Fascism in Interwar Romania The Criterion Association /

• Main Author: Bejan, Cristina A. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe,
• Subjects: Russia-History.; Europe, Eastern-History.; Civilization-History.; Intellectual life-History.; Europe-History-1492-.; World War, 1939-1945.; Russian, Soviet, and East European History.; Cultural History.; Intellectual Studies.; History of Modern Europe.; History of World War II and the Holocaust.

In 1930s Bucharest, some of the country's most brilliant young intellectuals converged to form the Criterion Association. Bound by friendship and the dream of a new, modern Romania, their members included historian Mircea Eliade, critic Petru Comarnescu, Jewish playwright Mihail Sebastian and a...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Nae Ionescu, the Young Generation, 'The Spiritual Itinerary' and Education Abroad, 1927-32
• 3. The Criterion Association of Arts, Literature and Philosophy: Beginnings and Birth in Bucharest, 1932
• 4. The Criterion Association's Activity of 1932: 'Idols' Symposia, Politics, Culture
• 5. Criterion Activity of 1933-35: Politics, Exhibitions, Symposia, Music and the Publication
• 6. The Dissolution of the Criterion Association, 1934-35: The Credinţa Scandal, Male Friendship, Sexuality and Freedom of the Press
• 7. Rhinocerization: Political Activity and Allegiances of the Young Generation, 1935-41
• 8. The Fate of the Young Generation and the Legacy of Criterion.