The bacovianism – ingenious synthesis of the main modernist currents

The objective of this article is to advance and support the hypothesis that, in our literature, George Bacovia is distinguished by the fact that he remained a modernist from one end of his existence to the other, and Bacovianism - the current he imposed and lent the name - is limited exclusively to the aesthetic direction of modernism. At the same time, however, Bacovia’s uniqueness consists in the fact that, in his lyrics, elements belonging to all modernist currents can be found, starting with the decadent experience, continuing with symbolism and expressionism and ending with existentialism.