Lotis Dolënga/ Elizabeta Eliade: între uitare și recuperare critică. Reconstituiri biografice și literare [Articol]

Abstract

The article analyzes the literary and biographical activity of the interwar Bessarabian writer Lotis Dolënga (Elizabeta Eliade), emphasizing the necessity of a historical and value-based recovery. The objectives of the article aim to reconstruct the author’s biographical path—providing information on her birth date and place, literary pseudonym, he genres she engaged with, and her active period until her death in 1961 in Bucharest; to highlight her stylistic and thematic contributions by uncovering the “informational layer” made up of genealogical and personal details; and to argue for her integration into the Romanian literary landscape through the recontextualization of her work and her position in Bessarabian literary criticism. Methodologically, the article uses primary documents and encyclopedias, critical analyses, contemporary journalistic sources, and genealogical investigations to fill in the missing data. It also presents the views of specialists such as Mihai Cimpoi, Alexandru Burlacu, and Iurie Colesnic, who emphasize the need to bring this writer out of obscurity.