The First World War in the Memory of Romanian Poetry

Starting from the observation of the canonical periodisation of Romanian literature into antebellum, interbellum, and postbellum, this study aims for a critical recovery of the taboo segment, on bellum poetry, with a focus on Romanian poetry inspired by the First World War among war veteran writers. The goal is to prove that the careful analysis of Romanian war poetry can reveal not only the profile of a minor genre that is meant to record the seismic clash between man and history, but actually trace the path of a major search for language that is capable of expressing the magnitude of such a clash.