Abstract
In this paper, the process of receiving Ion Creanga’s work in the East-Slavic space is examined through the mediation of two methods of literary interaction: the artistic translation and the critical interpellation. As for the translation, we focused on the process of selecting and editing the texts of the great classic. In order to give the reader a more com- prehensive picture of this process, we have attached to our commentary the bibliography of Russian and Ukrainian translations made not only in the Russian Federation and Ukraine, but also in the Republic of Moldova and Romania.
The bibliographic materials and those of the critical evaluations, which attend these editions are treated as forms of valuable literary receiving. The summary considerations on the act of artistic interpretation and the detailed examination of critical evaluations have resulted in a series of findings and conclusions, of which the following are worth of mentioning: a good part of the interpretations that accompany the Russian editions refer to bio-bibliographic data, which sometimes denotes the vulgar sociology (the privilege of time), but the reader has also benefited from important meditations of originality, charm and uniqueness of Creanga’s work; it is regrettable the absence in the cultural areas included in the viewfinder of some mono- graphic studies devoted to the most important Romanian prose writer, as well as the stopping of the process of receiving the immortal work of Ion Creanga during the last three decades.