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Cezar Petrescu

Biography

Cezar Petrescu was born in 1892 in Cotnari, Iaşi County. His father was an engineer. After studying law, he became a journalist and was prolific writer, attempting to write a Romanian Comédie humaine in the Balzac style. He wrote novels, short stories, plays, children’s literature, works on education, travel notes and memoirs. He also founded several literary magazines. He died in 1961.

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Bibliography

1922 Scrisorile unui răzeș (novel)
1924 Drumul cu Plopi (stories)
1925 Omul din vis (stories)
1927 Întunecare (Gathering Clouds) (novel)
1928 Omul care și-a găsit umbra (stories)
1929 Aranca, stima lacurilor (stories)
1930 Calea Victoriei (novel)
1930 Oraș patriarhal (novel)
1930 La Paradis general (novel)
1930 Pif – Paf – Puf (children’s)
1931 Comoara regelui Dromichet (novel)
1931 Fram, ursul polar (Fram the Polar Bear) (children’s)
1931 Baletul mecanic (novel)
1932 Greta Garbo (novel)
1932 Plecat fără adresă (novel)
1933 Apostol (novel)
1934 Aurul negru (novel)
1934 Duminica orbului (novel)
1935 Cheia visurilor (novel)
1935-38 Eminescu trilogy (Luceafarul, Nirvana, Carmen saeculare) (novel)
1935-43 1907 (novel)
1937-43 Pământ … mormânt (novel)
1938 Noi vrem pământ (novel)
1942 Ochii strigoiului (novel)
1944 Carlton (novel)
1945 Adapostul Sobolia (novel)
1945 Cocârț și bomba atomică (children’s)
1945 Iliuță copil (children’s)
1945 Neghiniță (children’s)
1945 Omul de zăpadă (children’s)
1946-47 Tapirul (novel)