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, 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; 2^nd ed., enlarged, Bucharest: <Editura Eminescu>, 1971; 3^rd ed., with new preface, 1995, Iaşi: <Polirom>, 1995; 4^th edition, Iaşi: <Polirom>, 2004.
Matei Călinescu, Versuri (Lines), Bucharest: <Editura Eminescu>, 1970.
Matei Călinescu, Umbre de apǎ, poeme, (Water Shadows, poems), Bucharest: <Editura Cartea Românescǎ>, 1972.
Matei Călinescu, Selections of Poetry translated into English in <Mundus Artium>, 1976, <New Letters>, 1976, <Seneca Review> 1981, <Correspondances>, 1982, and <2 PLUS 2>, 1983.
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
Matei Călinescu, Ion Vianu, Amintiri în dialog (Memories in Dialogue), Bucharest: <Editura Litera>, 1994; 2^nd ed. with preface and two new chapters included as an Epilogue, Iaşi: <Polirom>, 1998; 3^rd edition, Iaşi: <Polirom>, 2005.

Matei Călinescu, Un fel de jurnal, 1973-1981 (A Diary of Sorts, 1973-1981), Iaşi: <Polirom>, 2005.
Matei Călinescu, Exploring Postmodernism, (co-edited with D.W. Fokkema), Amsterdam and Philadelphia: <John Benjamins>, 1988, 270 p., Paperback edition, 1990.
Vlad Georgescu, Matei Călinescu, The Romanians: a history, <Ohio State University Press>, 1991. ISBN 0814205119
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 0300056575
Matei Călinescu, Despre Ioan P. Culianu si Mircea Eliade. Amintiri, Lecturi, Reflecţii, Iaşi: <Polirom>, 2002, 177 p., 2^nd ed., Iaşi: <Polirom>, 2002, 231 p.
Matei Călinescu, Portretul lui M (The Portrait of M, a memoir), Iaşi: <Polirom>, 2003.
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., 2^nd ed., Cluj-Iaşi: <Apostrof>-<Polirom>, 2007.
Matei Călinescu, Ionesco: Recherches identitaires, Paris: <Oxus>, 2005, 348 p.
Matei Călinescu, Eugène Ionesco: Teme identitare şi existenţiale (Eugene Ionesco: Identity and Existential Themes) Iaşi: <Junimea>, 2006, 491 p, Awarded the Writers' Union Prize for Eassay and Criticism, 2006.