Growing Up With Laurel and Hardy: Exploring Radu Cosașu’s “cinema writing”

The aim of this paper is to offer a different understanding of the way Radu Cosașu writes, emphasizing the cultural background and the passion that the author has in relation to cinematography. A summarized look at Radu Cosașu’s career as a writer provides a sufficiently fertile foundation to understand the importance he gives to the art of cinema, as well as the influence this art exerts on his writing. Having as a focal point the volume A Living With Laurel and Hardy, which was included by the writer in his series of Works, the present approach is focused on identifying the methods through which Radu Cosașu links his writing to cinema.

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