Matei Călinescu

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Matei Călinescu (b. June 15, 1934) is 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 emigrated from Romania to the United States in 1973. Currently an Emeritus Professor at Indiana University, Călinescu returned to Romania in 2003.

[edit] Selected bibliography

Matei Călinescu, Faces of modernity: avant-garde, decadence, kitsch, Indiana University Press, 1977. ISBN 0253320879
Matei Călinescu, Five faces of modernity: modernism, avant-garde, decadence, kitsch, postmodernism, Duke University Press, 1987. ISBN 0822307677
Vlad Georgescu, Matei Călinescu, The Romanians: a history, Ohio State University Press, 1991. ISBN 0814205119