Două reviste digitale româneşti, publicate în străinătate

provocări, probleme, tipologii

Abstract

The presentation intends to focus on two Romanian digital publications currently active today, Asymetria and Alternante, the first one being issued by Dan Culcer in France as part of a personal cultural blog, and the second one by Andrei Zanca, Eugen

1. Popin and Vasile Gogea in Germany. Although they occasionally share contributors, the typology of the two publications is different, because Asymetria is conceived to function as a political and socio-cultural platform, deeply indebted to its editor's sociological and even ethnocentric profile, while Alternante mainly focuses on a purely literary and aesthetic approach by sharing especially poetry or prose, and rarely other genres.

Their selection pool and organizing principle are also different, because Dan Culcer's publication attracts and selects the contributors by structuring them according to the leading, occasionally militant program of the issue, in a way which does not avoid polemic, while Alternante is built on an open minded "haystack principle", regulated by the liberal profile of the contributors and by their certified literary pedigree. There is also a generational gap between the two publications, which share nevertheless the editors' personal implication in the flow of the Romanian literature and their wish to take part from abroad in the symbolic exchanges of the Romanian literature and socio-political ideas.

The paper intends to tackle the challenges experienced by a literary researcher while reading, valuing and comparing these two different types of digital publications.