Basil Munteanu, un istoric literar aproape uitat

Abstract

This essay is focused on a Historian of Literary History, Basil Munteanu, and his masterwork, The Panorama of Romanian Literature, who initially has been written in French and published at a French Publishing House, and translated to five different Western Languages, being more famous abroad than in his own country. I have been studied both his literary biography and his works, trying to comprehend the way in which a History of Romanian Literature, written for a Foreign receptor will differ from a Romanian History of Romanian Literature, for example those written by G. Călinescu, The History of Romanian Literature, from Its Beginnings to the Present Days.