Overview
- Traces the lives of the young intellectual elite who made up Romania’s Young Generation and examines how many of them came to support fascism leading up to the disintegration of the liberal democratic state
- Offers a new perspective on the cultural life of Bucharest during the interwar period through the lens of the Criterion Association
- Draws upon the writings of the Young Generation during and about the interwar period, including journals, autobiographies, published articles, and fiction
- Offers a fuller picture of Romanian fascism within the context of the rise of the far right in the early twentieth century
Part of the book series: Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe (MOMEIDSEE)
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“Bejan’s meticulous study joins a handful of books that recognize that the quest for a dynamic new modernity animated both modernism and fascism. Incorporating extensive research in secret police archives, this book casts important new light on the unique ideological texture of Romanian fascism.” (Roger Griffin, author of Modernism and Fascism and The Nature of Fascism)
“A fascinating narrative. Superbly researched, it offers a new perspective on Romania’s (and Eastern Europe’s) interwar major political and cultural tensions. Nothing was simple with the Criterion Association, which was engaged in an excruciating search for existential authenticity. This book wonderfully reveals these agonizing complexities.” (From the foreword by Vladimir Tismaneanu, author of The Devil in History)
“Why did writers such as Emil Cioran and Mircea Eliade succumb to the lure of the Iron Guard? And what of those figures, such as Eugène Ionesco, who resisted? These are some of the questions addressed in this unique, persuasively argued study.” (Dennis Deletant, author of Romania under Communism: Paradox and Degeneration)
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Book Title: Intellectuals and Fascism in Interwar Romania
Book Subtitle: The Criterion Association
Authors: Cristina A. Bejan
Series Title: Modernity, Memory and Identity in South-East Europe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20165-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20164-7Published: 02 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20167-8Published: 02 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-20165-4Published: 23 August 2019
Series ISSN: 2523-7985
Series E-ISSN: 2523-7993
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 323
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Cultural History, Intellectual Studies, History of Modern Europe, History of World War II and the Holocaust