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• PoetryPoezii aleseIancu Văcărescu · 1830not translated into EnglishThe first published verses of a Wallachian boyar, in which love is still sung in the old manner.Literature
• PoetrySuvenire și impresii, epistole și fabuleGrigore Alexandrescu · 1847not translated into EnglishTravel meditations and political fables by a Wallachian poet, collected in one volume in 1847.Literature
• PoetryDoine și LăcrămioareVasile Alecsandri · 1853not translated into EnglishSongs born of popular poetry and poems of amorous mourning, gathered by a Moldavian poet.Literature
• Short storiesNouvelles historiques de la Moldo-RoumanieGheorghe Asachi · 1859not translated into EnglishChivalric tales drawn from medieval Moldavia, collected for the first time in Iași.Literature
• TaleThe Foundling Prince and Other TalesLegende sau basmele românilorPetre Ispirescu · 1872Romanian fairy tales, collected and rewritten by a Bucharest typographer.Literature
• TheatreO noapte furtunoasăIon Luca Caragiale · 1879not translated into EnglishA neighbourhood captain jealous of his honour, and a night of misunderstandings in a suburb of Bucharest.Literature
• PoetryLuceafărulMihai Eminescu · 1883not translated into EnglishA star in love with a princess asks the Creator to make him mortal.Literature
• Short storiesÎn lumea dreptățiiIoan Alexandru Brătescu-Voinești · 1906not translated into EnglishA man too upright for the world of justice in which he earns his living, in court as at the bar.Literature
• PoetryRomanțe pentru mai târziuIon Minulescu · 1908not translated into EnglishRomances of sea and travel, sung as much as read, by a Symbolist of Bucharest.Literature
• TheatreApus de soareBarbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea · 1909not translated into EnglishThe last months of Stephen the Great, amid illness, the question of succession and hostile boyars.Literature
• PoetryLa fântâna CastalieiNicolae Davidescu · 1910not translated into EnglishThe Parnassian and macabre beginnings of a poet from the Symbolist circle of Bucharest.Literature
• CinemaThe Independence of RomaniaIndependența RomânieiGrigore Brezeanu · 1912The war that gave the country its independence, re-enacted for its thirty-fifth anniversary.Cinema
• PoetryPlumbGeorge Bacovia · 1916not translated into EnglishRain, autumn, a small town with no way out, and the lead that weighs on everything.Literature
• TheatreTăgăduința lui PetruBenjamin Fondane · 1918not translated into EnglishThe night when Peter must say whether he knows his master, in a youthful monologue.Literature
• NovelIonLiviu Rebreanu · 1920The hunger for land of a young Transylvanian peasant, ready to do anything to own some.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelAt MedeleniLa MedeleniIonel Teodoreanu · 1925Three children, a Moldavian estate, and summers that come to an end.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelA Bach ConcertConcert din muzică de BachHortensia Papadat-Bengescu · 1927A Bach concert being prepared by a grande dame of Bucharest, and a family bustling around her.Literature
• NovelAncuta's InnHanul AncuțeiMihail Sadoveanu · 1928Nine travellers, an autumn of new wine, and stories of former times.Literature
• PoetryJurnal de sexGeo Bogza · 1929not translated into EnglishDesire spoken of without detour by a young poet, against the morality of the bourgeois.Literature
• NovelRakes of the Old CourtCraii de Curtea-VecheMateiu Caragiale · 1929Three revellers of old stock and an upstart, in the nights of a Levantine Bucharest.Literature
• PoetryJoc secundIon Barbu · 1930not translated into EnglishA mathematician's art of poetry, which seeks in the water of the mirror a sharper image of things.Literature
• PoetryApproximate ManL'Homme approximatifTristan Tzara · 1931A man who calls himself approximate, and seeks his measure in nineteen cantos without punctuation.Literature
• NovelFram, the Polar BearFram, ursul polarCezar Petrescu · 1931A circus bear sent back to the ice floe, who no longer knows how to live as a wild animal.Literature
• PoetryFlori de mucigaiTudor Arghezi · 1931not translated into EnglishVerses from the dungeon, in which thieves and outcasts speak.Literature
• NovelPapucii lui MahmudGala Galaction · 1932not translated into EnglishA man of the people kills an unarmed prisoner, then seeks forgiveness.Literature
• CinemaVisul lui TănaseConstantin Tănase · 1932A king of Bucharest music-hall invited to make a film in Berlin, at the beginning of the talkies.Cinema
• NovelMaidanul cu dragosteG. M. Zamfirescu · 1933not translated into EnglishA overcrowded courtyard in a Bucharest suburb, told by a boy who knows no other.LiteraturePublic domain
• NovelThe Bed of ProcrustesPatul lui ProcustCamil Petrescu · 1933Four voices, letters and notes, and a single story that never coincides with itself.Literature
• NovelBengal NightsMaitreyiMircea Eliade · 1933A young European lodged with a Bengali scholar, and a love the house cannot accept.Literature
• EssayOn the Heights of DespairPe culmile disperăriiEmil Cioran · 1934Short pages written during sleepless nights, by a young man making his debut.Literature
• NovelAdventures in Immediate IrrealityÎntâmplări în irealitatea imediatăMax Blecher · 1936A provincial adolescent for whom the simplest things become foreign.Literature
• PoetryȚara fetelorMaria Banuș · 1937not translated into EnglishA teenage girl discovers desire, among the fruit and flowers of a summer.Literature
• NovelEnigma OtilieiGeorge Călinescu · 1938not translated into EnglishA house on Antim Street where an inheritance is awaited, around an enigmatic young girl.Literature
• CinemaO noapte de pominăIon Șahighian · 1939A minor Bucharest clerk, a lifetime's savings and a night in a cabaret.Cinema
• PoetryCântice țigăneștiMiron Radu Paraschivescu · 1941not translated into EnglishThe suburbs of Bucharest and their rogues, sung as heroes of a ballad.Literature
• NovelBarefootDesculțZaharia Stancu · 1948Hunger, work and revolt, seen by the child of poor peasants.Literature
• TheatreMineriiMihail Davidoglu · 1949not translated into EnglishA miner who wants to exceed the plan, and all those who oppose him.Literature
• TheatreThe Bald SopranoLa Cantatrice chauveEugène Ionesco · 1950Two English couples, a mad clock and a fireman, in a conversation that goes round in circles.Literature
• NovelThe MorometesMoromețiiMarin Preda · 1955A family of Wallachian peasants, slowly undone by debts and grudges.Literature
• CinemaA Brief HistoryScurtă istorieIon Popescu-Gopo · 1957A little man of a few lines passes through the whole human adventure.Cinema
• PoetrySurâsul HiroshimeiEugen Jebeleanu · 1958not translated into EnglishA poet returned from Hiroshima speaks of the bomb and its dead.Literature
• TheatreMoartea unui artistHoria Lovinescu · 1964not translated into EnglishA famous sculptor, forbidden to work, faces death and his sons.Literature
• NovelLunateciiIon Vinea · 1965not translated into EnglishA Bucharest dandy torn between two women, in a novel of a lost generation.Literature
• TheatreSfântul Mitică BlajinulAurel Baranga · 1965not translated into EnglishA too-gentle archivist, pushed towards the exit by his director, who ends up standing up for himself.Literature
• CinemaForest of the HangedPădurea spânzurațilorLiviu Ciulei · 1965A Romanian officer in the Austro-Hungarian army, judge of deserters, overcome by doubt.Cinema
• NovelVestibulAlexandru Ivasiuc · 1967not translated into EnglishAn ageing doctor writes to a young woman in order to understand his own fear.Literature
• NovelAbsențiiAugustin Buzura · 1970not translated into EnglishA doctor who cannot stop the past from returning, and who refuses the world as it is.Literature
• CinemaThe ReenactmentReconstituireaLucian Pintilie · 1970Two young brawlers forced to re-enact their fight for a cautionary film.Cinema
• NovelGaleria cu viță sălbaticăConstantin Țoiu · 1976not translated into EnglishA young left-wing intellectual, crushed by the regime he believed in.Literature
• NovelWasted MorningDimineață pierdutăGabriela Adameșteanu · 1983Two old women of Bucharest, and a whole Romanian century in a family album.Literature
• NovelZenobiaGellu Naum · 1985A poet at a loss for words, the woman he has named Zenobia, marshes and a dream city.Literature

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