Limbă, Literatură, Folclor

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52505/llf.2025.2.03

Abstract: Emilian Galaicu-Păun is a postmodernist literary critic whose critical discourse turns literary criticism into a spectacle, through a carnivalesque approach to literature and meta-literary discourse. The aims of this type of discourse include the diversification of analytical tools through a series of techniques and procedures (irony, playfulness, intertextuality, etc.), the desolemnization of critical language, the erasure of boundaries between literary genres, the overturning of hierarchies frozen into clichés, and the dynamization of the marketplace of literary ideas, while combating partisanship and imposture. Both in the chronicles published in magazines such as Contrafort, Vatra, Semn, and Sud-Est Cultural, and in the weekly broadcasts on Radio Free Europe (since 2005), this critical discourse evokes a spectacle of alert thinking, shaped through irony, playfulness, and intertextuality.

Keywords: literary critic, critical discourse, essayist, critifiction, irony, carnivalesque.