JURNALUL UNUI SCRIITOR ÎN DEVENIRE – PAVEL DAN
The Diary of a Writer to Be – Pavel Dan

Summary/Abstract: Like M. Blecher, Anton Holban or Mihail Sebastian, Pavel Dan is a writer with a tragic destiny. He was born on the 3rd of September 1907 in Tritenii de Sus, Cluj county. In 1919 he began high-school in Turda and in 1932 he graduated from the Faculty of Letters in Cluj, Romanian major and Latin minor. After graduation he was a librarian and tutor at Turda high-school, then he became a Greek and Latin teacher at “Sf. Vasile” high-school in Blaj. Here he published in "Blaj" a series of short stories Îl duc pe popa, Întâlnire, La închisoare etc etc. Unfortunately time did not have patience with this writer, in which a part of literary critics saw a worthy successor for Liviu Rebreanu. With cancer, the writer dies on the 2nd of August 1937, in Cluj, on his 30th birthday. The volume that would make him one of the leading designers of the interwar period, Urcan the Old, sees the light of day only posthumously, in 1938, in Bucharest, with a preface signed by ion Chinezu. The writer's diary was published in 1974 by his son, teacher and literary critic Paul Sergiu Dan. In notes on the edition, he states that the author's diaries were written in two notebooks. The first is called Notes in life, while the second was called a human life with all its vicissitudes. Journal started in July 26 1925.

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