Metropole: Berlin, Rome, Paris through the Eyes of a Romanian Writer (Liviu Rebreanu)
Metropole: Berlin, Rome, Paris through the Eyes of a Romanian Writer (Liviu Rebreanu)

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses from an imagological point of view Liviu Rebreanu’s travelling book “Metropole”, mainly composed of the notes taken during the trips to Berlin, Rome and Paris. There are also some information provided about Poland, Yugoslavia and Hungary. The Romanian writer sets the people in the center of his interest and compares the realities seen abroad with the ones in his home country, thus rendering the work fit for a study in the history of the mentalities. Considerable attention is also given to the political events of the turbulent interwar period; Rebreanu skillfully detects the causes of the events to come, such as German revisionism and the rise of the extreme right. There are also several remarkable portrayals of historical figures such as Hindenburg, Benito Mussolini, Piłsudski, Raymond Poincaré.

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