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Action Writing: Jack Kerouac’s Wild Form (review)

Action Writing: Jack Kerouac’s Wild Form (review) phy echoes the dialectical process of transg fi uration that the young philosopher wanted for his “primitive” country. Convinced that all his personal achievements were conditioned by the national failure to equal the other leading European coun- tries in power, Cioran believed that the far right violence against older politicians and intellectuals would save him from collective mediocrity. u Th s, the Iron Guard’s vision of a dictatorial regime in Romania was in accordance with his plea for a dialectical leap into History, as opposed to a gradual adaptation to the Western European standards preferred by the older generation. Not only does Marta Petreu bring us closer to the parallel between Cioran’s personal turmoil and the politi- cal instability of interwar Romania, but she also highlights the signic fi ance of his “heretical” stands (pro-Occidentalist and anti-Christian Orthodox) within a group that eventually ceased to acknowledge him as one of its own. Moreover, her analysis of Cioran’s controversial stance regarding Romania’s minorities, especially Jewish and Hungarian minorities, further enriches our understanding of nationhood. In sum, this study is a remarkable and long-awaited attempt to fill in several epistemological ruptures still in place within post-Soviet identity narratives. With this in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Comparatist University of North Carolina Press

Action Writing: Jack Kerouac’s Wild Form (review)

The Comparatist , Volume 32 – May 24, 2008

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University of North Carolina Press
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Copyright © 2008 the Southern Comparative Literature Association.
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1559-0887

Abstract

phy echoes the dialectical process of transg fi uration that the young philosopher wanted for his “primitive” country. Convinced that all his personal achievements were conditioned by the national failure to equal the other leading European coun- tries in power, Cioran believed that the far right violence against older politicians and intellectuals would save him from collective mediocrity. u Th s, the Iron Guard’s vision of a dictatorial regime in Romania was in accordance with his plea for a dialectical leap into History, as opposed to a gradual adaptation to the Western European standards preferred by the older generation. Not only does Marta Petreu bring us closer to the parallel between Cioran’s personal turmoil and the politi- cal instability of interwar Romania, but she also highlights the signic fi ance of his “heretical” stands (pro-Occidentalist and anti-Christian Orthodox) within a group that eventually ceased to acknowledge him as one of its own. Moreover, her analysis of Cioran’s controversial stance regarding Romania’s minorities, especially Jewish and Hungarian minorities, further enriches our understanding of nationhood. In sum, this study is a remarkable and long-awaited attempt to fill in several epistemological ruptures still in place within post-Soviet identity narratives. With this in

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Published: May 24, 2008

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