Sorin Alexandrescu (born 18 August 1937) is a Romanian-born academic, literary critic, semiotician, linguist, essayist, and translator.
Born in Bucharest as the son of Constantin, a magistrate, and Ileana, Mircea Eliade's sister, he graduated from the "Mihai Viteazu" High School in his hometown (1955), and after that, from the Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest (1959). After teaching comparative literature at the University of Bucharest, where he was considered to be a structuralist, he was sent in 1969 by the Romanian authorities to teach Romanian language and literature at universities in Amsterdam and Groningen.[1] In 1974 he decided to defect.[2]
In 1976, he founded the International Journal of Roumanian Studies.[1]
During the 1989 Romanian Revolution, he returned to Romania as a correspondent for a Dutch newspaper.[3]
In 1998, he was named presidential adviser for culture. In 2001, he settled permanently in Romania again.[3] That same year, he was one of the founders of the so-called Centrul de Excelență în Studiul Imaginii at the University of Bucharest, together with Dan Grigorescu, Mihai Zamfir, Laura Mesina, Vlad Alexandrescu, Vasile Morar and Zoe Petre.[4]
Books
edit- The Logic of Personages, 1973
- Logique du personnage: reflexions sur l'univers faulknerien, (1974)
- Dimitrie Cantemir: Roemeens historicus en politicus 1673-1723, Bussum 1975
- Transformational grammar and the Rumanian language, 1977
- Richard Rorty, 1995
- Figurative of the Art. Beginning and End. 20th Century in Romania, 1998
- Paradoxul român, 1998
- Identitate în ruptură. Mentalitati românești postbelice, 2000
- La modernité a l'Est. 13 aperçus sur la literature roumaine, 2000
References
edit- ^ a b "Alexandrescu, Sorin" (PDF) (in Romanian). Retrieved November 21, 2014.
- ^ Simut, Ion (2008). "Cronologia exilului literar postbelic (II)" (in Romanian). Romania literara. Retrieved November 21, 2014.
- ^ a b Laurențiu Ungureanu; Anca Vancu; Alina Boghiceanu (28 August 2014), "Adevărul Live. Nepotul lui Mircea Eliade și moștenitorul Brătienilor: "Teama era că Ceaușescu o să trăiască mai mult decât noi"", Adevărul (in Romanian), retrieved 7 September 2014
- ^ "Sorin Alexandrescu", Pagina oficială a Centrului de Excelență în Studiul Imaginii (in Romanian), retrieved 7 September 2014
External links
edit- Articles by Sorin Alexandrescu in Observator cultural (in Romanian)
- Centrul Cultural Pitești (in Romanian)
- Sorin Alexandrescu în oglinda Occidentului, Solomon Marcus, Observator cultural - numărul 126, iulie 2002 (in Romanian)
- Mircea Eliade – identitate în ruptură, Carmen Mușat, Observator cultural - numărul 338, septembrie 2006 (in Romanian)
Interviews
- „Nu numai în cultura romană, ci și pentru ea” (I). Interviu cu Sorin Alexandrescu, Raluca Alexandrescu, Observator cultural - numărul 52, februarie 2001 (in Romanian)
- „Nu numai în cultura romană, ci și pentru ea” (II). Interviu cu Sorin Alexandrescu, Raluca Alexandrescu, Observator cultural - numărul 53, februarie 2001 (in Romanian)
- Cultura bate criza!, Carmen Mușat, Observator cultural - numărul 547, octombrie 2010 (in Romanian)