Féminité et anonymat dans la communauté littéaire de Sburătorul.

The present paper endeavors to raise the issue of feminine presence within a larger community of writers, having as a point of departure the particular situation represented by a Romanian literary circle that operated between the two world wars (i.e. "Sburătorul" circle, 1919-1943), and was lead by E. Lovinescu's reputed figure. In his turn, the mentor of this group fashioned himself as the most prominent and authoritative Romanian critic who, making use of this quality, undertook the project to sketch a gallery of female portraits corresponding chiefly to "Sburătorul" women writers. What draws the attention from the first instance is the manner of portraiture with respect to feminine profiles; the critic would not count on singularity as a main trait of artistic temper, but he would rather interlace a series of variations on a privileged core theme, that is, the anonymous personality. By carrying through a detailed analysis on the various forms of indeterminacy, we try to establish that anonymity is a question connected to the general democratization of art in modern times (just anyone can become a writer), shadowed, on the other side, by the complementary notion of genius styled in a Romantic vein. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]