LIVIU REBREANU’S RELATIONS WITH THE PRESS OF THE EPOCH
LIVIU REBREANU’S RELATIONS WITH THE PRESS OF THE EPOCH

Summary/Abstract: Although in the history of the Romanian Literature Liviu Rebreanu remained through his writings in prose, through his novels, the writer considers himself a journalist. At the beginning of his career he was a journalist for a number of newspapers and literary magazines (Falanga literară și artistică [The Literary and Artistic Phalanx], Convorbiri critice [Critical Conversations], Ordinea [The Order]), he collaborated in numerous other publications of the time, he was the director of a newspaper and established certain literary magazines: România literară [The Literary Romania], Mișcare literară [The Literary Movement], etc., and he was always concerned to record ‘ thoroughly and as objective as possible the artistic and cultural phenomenon, to maintain interest in art and culture’. Liviu Rebreanu knows the media world with all its bright and dark sides. He was blamed, denigrated, blackmailed by some journalists at times, but also praised by others. He understood what does the breaking news and "group interest" of certain newspapers mean, but also the value of the comments of the literary criticism, of the news report, of the interest in the Romanian publishing art. In conclusion, we may state that the journalist work of Liviu Rebreanu, the writer's relationship with the press of the time, deeply marks his entire existence. Thus, the journalistic work of Liviu Rebreanu has to be known in order to better understand his entire literary creation.

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