Romanian Columnists

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ion Luca Caragiale, Alexandru Macedonski, Vladimir Tismneanu, erban Cioculescu, Perpessicius, Ion Clugru, Horia G[rbea, Anatol E. Baconsky, Tudor Arghezi, Ioan Gyuri Pascu, Ion S[n-Giorgiu, Cristian Tudor Popescu. Excerpt: Alexandru Macedonski Alexandru Macedonski (Romanian pronunciation: also rendered as Al. A. Macedonski, Macedonschi or Macedonsky; March 14, 1854 November 24, 1920) was a Wallachian -born Romanian poet, novelist, dramatist and literary critic, known especially for having promoted French Symbolism in his native country, and for leading the Romanian Symbolist movement during its early decades. A forerunner of local modernist literature, he is the first local author to have used free verse, and claimed by some to have been the first in moder...