Un cronicar al veacului XX: Cezar Petrescu
A chronicler of the 20th century: Cezar Petrescu

Summary/Abstract: Considered the first professional writer of the Romanian literature, Cezar Petrescu is the author of a vast literary work, doubled by a prolific activity as a journalist. His literary work –stories and novels – lay at the border of two trends in Romanian literature, connected to the European ideas and practices: overcoming the conservatory features and breaking free from the classical traditionalist norms and taking up new perspectives, both formal and substantial. Cezar Petrescu’s literature illustrates perfectly the seeking and the confusion but also the surprising readiness of the writer in front of the new, in addition to being concerned with the issues of his time, the circulation of ideas in the occidental culture, and facing, through the journalist’s filter, the immediate, Romanian reality.

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