Matei Călinescu

Matei Călinescu (June 15, 1934, Bucharest – June 24, 2009, Bloomington, Indiana) was a Romanian literary critic and professor of comparative literature at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana.

He attended the "Ion Luca Caragiale" High School in Bucharest, taking his diploma in 1952. He was offered a Fulbright grant and defected to the United States in 1973.^[1] After his retirement he became an Emeritus Professor at Indiana University. He lived with his wife in Bloomington, Indiana.

Selected bibliography

• Matei Călinescu, Matthew's Enigma...A father's portrait of his autistic son., USA: Indiana University Press, 2009, 210 p. ISBN 978-0-253-22066-0
• Matei Călinescu, Eugène Ionesco: Teme identitare şi existenţiale (Eugène Ionesco: Identity and Existential Themes) Iaşi: Junimea, 2006, 491 p, Awarded the Writers' Union Prize for Eassay and Criticism, 2006.
• Matei Călinescu, Ionesco: Recherches identitaires, Paris: Oxus, 2005, 348 p.
• Matei Călinescu, Un fel de jurnal, 1973–1981 (A Diary of Sorts, 1973–1981), Iaşi: Polirom, 2005.
• Matei Călinescu, Ion Vianu, Amintiri în dialog (Memories in Dialogue), Bucharest: Editura Litera, 1994; 2nd ed. with preface and two new chapters included as an Epilogue, Iaşi: Polirom, 1998; 3rd edition, Iaşi: Polirom, 2005.
• Matei Călinescu, Tu: Elegii şi invenţii (You: Elegies and Inventions, poems), Iaşi: Polirom, 2004.
• Matei Călinescu, Mateiu I. Caragiale: recitiri, Cluj: Biblioteca Apostrof, 2003, 160 p., 2nd ed., Cluj-Iaşi: Apostrof-Polirom, 2007.
• Matei Călinescu, Portretul lui M (The Portrait of M, a memoir), Iaşi: Polirom, 2003.
• Matei Călinescu, Rereading, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993, 336 p. Translated into Romanian as "A citi, a reciti. Cǎtre o poeticǎ a (re)lecturii", Iaşi: Polirom, 2003. ISBN 0-300-05657-5
• Matei Călinescu, Despre Ioan P. Culianu si Mircea Eliade. Amintiri, Lecturi, Reflecţii, Iaşi: Polirom, 2002, 177 p., 2nd ed., Iaşi: Polirom, 2002, 231 p.
• Vlad Georgescu, Matei Călinescu, The Romanians: a history, Ohio State University Press, 1991. ISBN 0-8142-0511-9
• Matei Călinescu, Exploring Postmodernism, (co-edited with D.W. Fokkema), Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1988, 270 p., Paperback edition, 1990.
• Matei Călinescu, Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-Garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism, Duke University Press, 1987. ISBN 0-8223-0767-7
• Matei Călinescu, Faces of Modernity: Avant-Garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Indiana University Press, 1977. ISBN 0-253-32087-9
• Matei Călinescu, Selections of Poetry translated into English in Mundus Artium, 1976, New Letters, 1976, Seneca Review, 1981, Correspondences, 1982, and 2 PLUS 2, 1983.
• Matei Călinescu, Umbre de apă, poeme, (Water Shadows, poems), Bucharest: Editura Cartea Românescǎ, 1972.
• Matei Călinescu, Versuri (Lines), Bucharest: Editura Eminescu, 1970.
• Matei Călinescu, Viaţa şi opiniile lui Zacharias Lichter (The Life & Opinions of Zacharias Lichter) a short novel, Bucharest: Editura Pentru Literaturǎ, 1969, awarded the Romanian Writers' Union Prize for Fiction, 1969, translated into Hungarian, 1971, Polish, 1972, and French excerpts in Cahiers de l'Est, 1, 2, 1975; 2nd ed., enlarged, Bucharest: Editura Eminescu, 1971; 3rd ed., with new preface, 1995, Iaşi: Polirom, 1995; 4th edition, Iaşi: Polirom, 2004.

References

1. "„Nu ştiam niciodată ce se va produce în poezie“" (in Romanian). Observator cultural. March 2010. Retrieved January 10, 2014.

External links

• "Matei Calinescu", at Indiana University
• "Matei Calinescu", at WordsWithoutBorders
• Author’s page on the website of Romanian publishing house Polirom