Părintele diaristicii româneşti (Titu Maiorescu)
Titu Maiorescu, the father of the Romanian diarism

Summary/Abstract: Although there had been several diaristic attempts before, it is Titu Maiorescu who left the first personal diary which is considered really important in the Romanian literature. This is the reason why the spiritual mentor of „Junimea” can be rightly considered the father of the Romanian self-fiction. Before the times of Titu Maiorescu, there had been a real tradition of travel journals, a type of writing which defied the rule of privacy. The Romanian traveler of the 19th century was genuinely enthusiastic about the discoveries made during traveling in Europe and the only way to record the powerful impressions was to put down the experiences in a notebook. This is what people like Dinicu Golescu, Vasile Alecsandri, Dimitrie Bolintineanu, Cezar Bolliac, Timotei Cipariu, G. Bariţiu, Gh. Asachi, Ion Codru Drăguşanu and some others did. It is only the writing Notele intime [Private notes] by C. A. Rosetti that followed a different standard, anticipating the reference writings of Titu Maiorescu. As most of these writings were published at a considerable distance in time from the moment of their writing, the impact of such travel journals on the evolution of Romanian diarism was quite irrelevant.

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