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Nicolae Davidescu (; October 24, 1888 – June 12, 1954) was a
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Davidescu, Nicolae 1888 births 1954 deaths 20th-century Romanian poets Romanian male poets Symbolist poets Romanian essayists Writers from Bucharest Male essayists 20th-century essayists 20th-century Romanian male writers
Nicolae Davidescu (; October 24, 1888 – June 12, 1954) was a Romania
Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...
n symbolist
Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realis ...
poet and novelist.
Works
Poetry
* 1910: ''La fântâna Castaliei'' ("At Castalia's Well") - parnassianist poems * 1916: ''Inscripţii'' ("Engravings") - influenced byCharles Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poetry, French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist and art critic. His poems exhibit mastery in the handling of rhyme and rhythm, contain an exoticis ...
* 1928 – 1937: ''Cântecul omului'' ("The Song of Man") - recreating of the world history, influenced by La Légende des siècles
''La Légende des siècles'' (English: ''The Legend of the Ages'') is a collection of poems by Victor Hugo, conceived as an immense depiction of the history and evolution of humanity.
Written intermittently between 1855 and 1876 while Hugo worked ...
(Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the great ...
).
Novel
* 1912: ''Zâna din fundul lacului'' ("The Fairy at the Bottom of the Lake") - an exercise in symbolism; * 1915: ''Sfinxul'' ("The Sphinx") * 1928: ''Vioara mută'' ("The Muted Violin") - influenced by social psychology;Literary criticism
Two collections of his literary criticism were published posthumously: * 1975: ''Aspecte şi direcţii literare'' ("Literary Conventions and Directions") * 1977: ''Poezii, teatru, proză'' ("Poetry, Drama, Prose"). Nicolae Davidescu collaborated atViața Românească
''Viața Românească'' (, "The Romanian Life") is a monthly literary magazine published in Romania. Formerly the platform of the left-wing traditionalist trend known as poporanism, it is now one of the Writers' Union of Romania's main venues.
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Davidescu, Nicolae 1888 births 1954 deaths 20th-century Romanian poets Romanian male poets Symbolist poets Romanian essayists Writers from Bucharest Male essayists 20th-century essayists 20th-century Romanian male writers