Background

Liviu Rebreanu was born on November 27, 1885 in Felsoilosva, Szolnok-Doboka County, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (present-day Tarlisua, Bistrita-Nasaud County, Transylvania, Romania). He was the second of thirteen children of Vasile Rebreanu, a schoolteacher, and Ludovica Diuganu. His both parents were descendants of peasants.

Education

Liviu Rebreanu went to primary school in Maieru and then in Nasaud and Bistrita. He also studied at the military school in Sopron and the Ludovica Military Academy in Budapest (later the Royal Hungarian Ludovica Defense Academy).

Career

Upon graduation from the Ludovica Military Academy in 1906, Rebreanu served for a short time in the Austro-Hungarian Army. He was an officer in Gyula, but resigned in 1908. Rebreanu then settled in Bucharest, where he worked as a journalist for Ordinea and then for Falanga literara si artistica. In 1910, at the request of the Austro-Hungarian government, Rebreanu was arrested and extradited. He was freed in August of the same year and returned to Bucharest. From 1911 to 1912, he was a secretary for the National Theater in Craiova.

Rebreanu's first collection of short stories, Framantari, was published in 1912, and, throughout the decade, he continued to write short fiction. He also wrote his first novel during this period. With the publication of Ion in 1920, Liviu was immediately hailed as the foremost Rumanian novelist. While he subsequently published dramas, literary criticism and essays, Rebreanu concentrated on the novel form during the remainder of his career, which ended abruptly with his suicide in 1944.

It's also worth noting, that, between 1928 and 1930, Liviu was chairman of the National Theatre of Bucharest, and, from 1925 to 1932, he was president of the Romanian Writers' Society.

Achievements

• Liviu Rebreanu was a notable novelist, playwright, short story writer and journalist, whose works were critically acclaimed during his lifetime. His work, titled The Uprising, is widely considered the masterpiece of Romanian fiction. Liviu brought international attention to the literature of his native region, earning continuing respect and admiration in Romania.
  
  It's also important to note, that Liviu was a recipient of the Romanian Academy Award.

Works

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  • Ion

    (A book by Liviu Rebreanu.)

    1920
  • Adamo ed Eva

    (A book by Liviu Rebreanu.)

    1925
  • Ciuleandra

    (A book by Liviu Rebreanu.)

    1927
  • Padurea Spanzuratilor

    (A book by Liviu Rebreanu.)

    1922
  • Rascoala

    (A book by Liviu Rebreanu.)

    1932
  • Gorila

    (A book by Liviu Rebreanu.)

    1938
  • Amandoi

    (A book by Liviu Rebreanu.)

    1940

Views

Rebreanu's fiction consistently reflects his early background in the poor farming region of Transylvania and his concern for the social, economic and spiritual problems of the Romanian peasantry. In Ion, for example, Rebreanu depicts the circumscribed existence of a Transylvanian farmer, focusing on the conflict between the farmer's physical drives and his Christian morality, while The Uprising is based on a peasant revolt of 1907. Synthesizing the techniques of European Realism and its offspring, Naturalism, Rebreanu attempted to provide not only an objective and accurate account of the events he narrated, but also some sense of the larger forces, that control human destiny and create human conflict, whether personal, racial or international.

Rebreanu's oeuvre is regarded as a watershed in the development of Romanian literature, marking the transition from nineteenth-century Romanticism to more modern literary theories and techniques.

Personality

Physical Characteristics: According to some sources of information, Liviu Rebreanu died of lung disease, while the others claim he committed suicide.

Quotes from others about the person

• Ion Dodu Balan: "Rebreanu was a fine social observer and a penetrating analyst. Conscious of the writer's moral responsibility, Rebreanu continued the already established tradition, lending new brilliance to Romanian novel-writing and thus raising it on a par with the world's most valuable creations of the time. More deeply concerned with the complex and full expression of truth, than with niceties of style, the novelist conveyed a forceful impression of reality. Rebreanu's writing displays the solid and impressive architecture of objective fiction, capable to overwhelm reality itself."

Connections

Liviu Rebreanu was married to Fanny (Radulescu) Rebreanu, an actress.

Father:

Vasile Rebreanu

Mother:

Ludovica Diuganu

Spouse:

Fanny (Radulescu) Rebreanu

(December 27, 1888 - August 15, 1976)

Fanny (Radulescu) Rebreanu was a Romanian actress.

colleague:

Emil Garleanu

(January 5, 1878 - July 2, 1914)

Emil Garleanu was a Romanian prose writer.