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477:(1942). His transition was somewhat surprising: other than his pacifist essays of 1919, Brătescu-Voinești had heretofore not made waves within his conservative circles. But beginning with an anti-Semitic press campaign of 1937, he passed through all the stages of Romanian anti-Semitism, from "popular" and traditional form to the politically and ideologically radical variant. A declared follower of
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class and its uncomplicated structure, of small-time provincial clerks; his characters are unable to adapt to the modern world, their souls filled with candor, hurt when they come into contact with the brutal bourgeois world, incapable of withstanding the impact of lies and injustice. Although
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and deportation of the Jews. Brătescu-Voinești was friends with
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romantic, his material is handled using a classic, direct, simple, often confessional tone. His sympathetic participation in the destinies he narrates gives his prose an intensely lyrical flavor, which helps account for its charm and popularity.
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517:, that the Romans were descended from Geto-Dacians, with Latin a literary form of Dacian, and that Italian, French, and Spanish had "Romanian" roots. Near the end of his life, he engaged in a polemic against the rising
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289:. His father died in 1890, and Maiorescu took on the role of father figure in the young man's life. After graduating in 1892, he was appointed a judge through his mentor's intervention, serving at Bucharest,
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and other newspapers affiliated with the party hurled copious epithets at the aging figure, denouncing his wartime collaborationism and printed output.
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Brătescu-Voinești evoked the medium of the crumbling ancient
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from 1907 to 1914. Elected a corresponding member of the
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