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Cezar Petrescu

Died in 1961

Cezar Petrescu was born on 1 December 1892 in Iași county and studied law at the university of that city. A journalist, he was among the leading figures of the review Gândirea and wrote for many newspapers; from 1938 to 1940 he directed the daily of the personal regime of Carol II. Following the model of Balzac, he sought to paint, in a vast sequence of novels, the Romanian society of his century. He entered the Romanian Academy in 1955 and died in Bucharest on 9 March 1961.

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