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Liviu Rebreanu ( November 27 1885 , Târlişua , currently Bistriţa-Năsăud County, Transylvania , then in Austria-HungarySeptember 1 1944 , Valea Mare , Argeş County ) was a Romania n Novelist , Playwright , Short Story writer, and Journalist .


LIFE

The first of thirteen children born to Vasile Rebreanu, a scoolteacher, and '''Ludovica Diuganu''', descendants of peasants. His father had been a classmate of George Coşbuc 's and was an Amateur Folklorist . Liviu Rebreanu went to Primary School in Maieru (where he was tought by his father), and then in Năsăud and Bistriţa , to military school at Sopron and then to the Military Academy in Budapest . He worked as an officer in Gyula but resigned in 1908 , and in 1909 illegally crossed the Transylvanian Alps into Romania, and lived in Bucharest .

He joined several literary circles, and worked as a journalist for ''Ordinea'', then for ''Falanga literară şi artistică''. At the request of the Austro-Hungarian government, he was arrested and Extradited in 1910. Rebreanu was incarcerated in Gyula, being freed in August; he retured to Bucharest. In 1911-1912 he was secretary for the National Theater in Craiova , where he worked under the direction of short story writer Emil Gârleanu . He got married to actress Fanny Rădulescu.

His first published in 1912 with a volume of '' led by the literary critic Eugen Lovinescu .

In 1920 Rebreanu published his novel '' Ion '', the first modern Romanian novel, in which he depicted the struggles over land ownership in rural Transylvania. For ''Ion'', Rebreanu received a Romanian Academy award - he became a full member of the institution in 1939. Between 1928 and 1930 he was the director of the National Theatre Of Bucharest , and from 1940 to 1944 he was President of the Romanian Writers' Society.


WORKS


Short stories and novellas

  • ''Catastrofa'' ("The Catastrophe") (1921)

  • ''Norocul'' ("The Fate") (1921)

  • ''Cuibul visurilor'' ("Nest of Dreams") (1927)

  • ''Cântecul lebedei'' ("The Swan Song") (1927)

  • ''Iţic Ştrul dezertor'' ("Iţic Ştrul as a Deserter") (1932)



Novels on social issues

  • '' Ion '' (1920)

  • ''Crăişorul'' (approx. "The Little King") (1929)

  • ''Răscoala'' ("The Revolt") (1932)

  • ''Gorila'' ("The Gorilla") (1938)



Psychological Novel s

  • '' Pădurea Spânzuraţilor '' ("Forest of the Hanged" - a frequent translation title, although the Romanian version translates as "The Forest of the Hanged") (1922)

  • ''Adam şi Eva'' ("Adam and Eve") (1925)

  • ''Ciuleandra'' (1927)

  • ''Jar'' ("Coke") (1934)



Other Novels

  • ''Amândoi'' ("Both") (1940)



Plays

  • ''Cadrilul'' ("The Quadrille") (1919)

  • ''Plicul'' ("The Envelope") (1923)

  • ''Apostolii'' ("The Apostles") (1926)