Meridian. 1934-1946

The book is a monographic study of the Meridian magazine published in May 1934, in Craiova, with Tiberiu Iliescu as its spiritual master. Marcel Ciorcan provides you with information regarding the spiritual framework in which the magazine appears, the purpose of such an appearance, but also its founding members; there are also pages devoted to the aesthetic program of the magazine in which names like: Sașa Pană, Virgil Gheorghiu, Gh. Dinu (Ștefan Roll), Gellu Naum, Miron Radu Paraschivescu, Gherasim Luca, Ștefan Popescu (Sabin Vasia), Virgil Teodorescu, D. Trost, Paul Păun, Victor Brauner, Eugen Constant, Const. Lucretia-Vâlceanu, Geo Dumitrescu, Alecu Vellea, Vlaicu Bârna. What determined the appearance of the magazine? "Perhaps you have not noticed that Meridianul appears with interpretable delays and with scandalous surprises. In the sour light of the desk lamp I would like to whisper to you all the meaning, joy and concerns related to this publication. One evening, in the year 1934, on one of the boulevards of Bucharest, when the lights were blooming complicated fogs, several teenagers with terrible attitudes and vindictive readings they proposed literary achievements. Each thought with hopes, another for the bizarreness of inspiration, another for hermeticism, and all of them agitated, poor and timid, in a city with demoralized turbulence, only the consolation of the aspirational poem remained. Later the magazine Meridian appeared." Tiberiu Iliescu, "Confidence" - Meridian, notebook 28-31, p. 62