3. VASILE ALECSANDRI He is a pasoptist writer. He writes poetry, prose and plays (comedies, dramas).

4. II. THE GREAT CLASSICS

6. TITU MAIORESCU HE STUDIED AESTHETICS AND LITERARY CRITICISM FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ROMANIA

7. MIHAI EMINESCU 1850-1889 Romanian national poet The last great Romantic of Europe

8. ION CREANGĂ 1830 – 1889 Creangă is the greatest Romanian narrator and one of the greatest narrators in Europe.

10. IOAN SLAVICI 1848 – 1925 He is considered “the father of the Romanian short story” and “a Balzac of the Romanian village”.

11. III. THE END OF XIX-TH CENTURY AND THE BEGINNING OF XX-TH CENTURY IN LITERATURE

12. GEORGE COŞBUC 1866 – 1918

13. OCTAVIAN GOGA 1881 – 1938

14. ALEXANDRU MACEDONSKI 1854 – 1920 The father of modern poetic movement.

15. GEORGE BACOVIA 1881 – 1957 (George Vasiliu ) The greatest Romanian Symbolist poet

16. IV. INTER-WAR LITERATURE

17. NECHIFOR CRAINIC THE THEORIST OF ORTHODOX TRADITIONALISM

18. VASILE VOICULESCU AN IMPORTANT TRADITIONALIST POET DURING THE INTER-WAR PERIOD

19. EUGEN LOVINESCU THEORIST OF ROMANIAN MODERNISM

20. LUCIAN BLAGA 1895 – 1961 Poet, dramatist, essayist and inter- war prose writer.

21. TUDOR ARGHEZI 1880 – 1967 ( Ion Theodorescu ) The second poet, after Eminescu, who revolutionizes poetic language.

22. 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”.

23. MIHAIL SADOVEANU 1880-1961 “CEAHLAU MOUNTAIN in Romanian literature“

24. LIVIU REBREANU 1885-1944

25. 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.

26. GEORGE CALINESCU He is, together with Eugen Lovinescu, one of the greatest Romanian reviewers.

27. MIRCEA ELIADE 1907 – 1986 Prose writer and historian of religions.

28. V. POST-WAR LITERATURE

29. MARIN PREDA 1922 – 1980 He is the most known post-war prose writer.

31. 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.

32. MARIN SORESCU 1936-1997

33. THE’80s POSTMODERNIST LITERATURE

34. 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.

35. 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.