VASILE ALECSANDRI He is a pasoptist writer. He writes poetry, prose and plays (comedies, dramas).
II. THE GREAT CLASSICS
TITU MAIORESCU HE STUDIED AESTHETICS AND LITERARY CRITICISM FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ROMANIA
MIHAI EMINESCU Romanian national poet The last great Romantic of Europe
ION CREANGĂ 1830 – 1889 Creangă is the greatest Romanian narrator and one of the greatest narrators in Europe.
IOAN SLAVICI 1848 – 1925 He is considered “the father of the Romanian short story” and “a Balzac of the Romanian village”.
III. THE END OF XIX-TH CENTURY AND THE BEGINNING OF XX-TH CENTURY IN LITERATURE
GEORGE COŞBUC 1866 – 1918
OCTAVIAN GOGA 1881 – 1938
ALEXANDRU MACEDONSKI 1854 – 1920 The father of modern poetic movement.
GEORGE BACOVIA 1881 – 1957 (George Vasiliu ) The greatest Romanian Symbolist poet
IV. INTER-WAR LITERATURE
NECHIFOR CRAINIC THE THEORIST OF ORTHODOX TRADITIONALISM
VASILE VOICULESCU AN IMPORTANT TRADITIONALIST POET DURING THE INTER-WAR PERIOD
EUGEN LOVINESCU THEORIST OF ROMANIAN MODERNISM
LUCIAN BLAGA 1895 – 1961 Poet, dramatist, essayist and inter- war prose writer.
TUDOR ARGHEZI 1880 – 1967 ( Ion Theodorescu ) The second poet, after Eminescu, who revolutionizes poetic language.
ION BARBU Dan Barbilian 1895 – 1961 HERMETIC POET There is an interfering of poetry with mathematics: “somewhere, in the broad area of geometry, there is a bright place where it meets poetry”.
MIHAIL SADOVEANU “CEAHLAU MOUNTAIN in Romanian literature“
LIVIU REBREANU
CAMIL PETRESCU 1894 – 1957 He is one of the creators of the modern town novel and the most important analytic novelist of lucidness and authenticity.
GEORGE CALINESCU He is, together with Eugen Lovinescu, one of the greatest Romanian reviewers.
MIRCEA ELIADE 1907 – 1986 Prose writer and historian of religions.
V. POST-WAR LITERATURE
MARIN PREDA 1922 – 1980 He is the most known post-war prose writer.
NICHITA STĂNESCU 1933 – 1983 He is an innovator of artistic language. His poetry is hermetic, because it gets near to mathematics through its encoded, initiating language.
MARIN SORESCU
THE’80s POSTMODERNIST LITERATURE
MIRCEA NEDELCIU 1950 – 1999 He was a Romanian writer, considered to be one of the most important representatives of the ‘80s trend and of postmodernism in Romanian literature.
MIRCEA CĂRTĂRESCU n. 1 iunie 1956 He is an important theorist of Romanian postmodernism, and a successful contemporary author, appreciated not only in his country, but also abroad.