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by Ion Agârbiceanu

"Satul lui Agârbiceanu, ca şi lumea operei lui Creangă, e populat, într-o măsură de care la început nu ne dăm seama, cu tot soiul de "apucaţi", de originali, dar şi de bieţi nenorociţi aşa cum i-a fixat pe de o parte amintirea, pe de alta, perspicacitatea de cumătru pătrunzător, cu ceva de psihanalist empiric într-nsul, căruia nu-i scapă nici una din anomaliile mari şi mici ale existenţei şi firii omeneşti. Dintre eroii aceştia, o categorie aparte, bine-cunoscută, în genere, o formează cei ce ne smulg compătimirea şi au smuls-o, în primul rând, scriitorului însuşi, care nu se poate stăpâni să nu-şi însoţească actul portretizării de o vibrare specială, de altfel stăpânită, în care se exprimă emoţia omului matur, trecut prin multe." - C. Regman, Prefaţă la volumul Două iubiri, Editura pentru Literatură, 1968, p. XIII.

Volumul de faţă conţine următoarele povestiri:
- Fefeleaga,
- Luminiţa,
- Valea-Dracului,
- Dura lex,
- Melentea,
- Dinu Natului,
- Darul lui Moş Miron,
- Popa Man,
- Jandarmul.

Genres: Romanian Literature

231 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1979

About the author

Ion Agârbiceanu (September 12, 1882 – May 28, 1963) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian writer, journalist, politician, theologian and Greek-Catholic priest. A native of Transylvania, he graduated from Budapest University, following which he was ordained. He was initially assigned to a parish in the Apuseni Mountains, which form the backdrop to much of his fiction. Before 1910, Agârbiceanu had achieved literary fame in both Transylvania and the Kingdom of Romania, his work disputed between the rival schools of Sămănătorul and Poporanism.

Committed to social and cultural activism in Transylvania, Agârbiceanu spent the 1910s officiating near Sibiu, with a break during World War I that eventually took him deep into Ukraine. He moved to Cluj in 1919, and would live there for much of the remainder of his life. After the war, he involved himself in both the political and cultural life of Greater Romania, being voted into the Romanian Academy, and assuming the office of Senate vice president under the National Renaissance Front dictatorship.

Agârbiceanu spent his last decade and a half under a communist regime that outlawed his church, an act in which he refused to cooperate. Much of his work, with its transparent Christian moralizing, proved incompatible with the new ideology, and was banned by communist censors; however, the regime found him useful for its image, and bestowed honors upon him. Agârbiceanu's full contribution has been made available since the 1990s, but he endures as a largely forgotten author, with the possible exception of his Apuseni-based novella, Fefeleaga.

Reviews

[Lulu · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've read this book during the Christmas break and all I can say is that it was a perfect literary background.
So , we step into an enchanted world where Christmas traditions are deeply respected : whith grandparents , carols ,villeges, snow and mischevous children .
This is what the book is about on one hand.
On the other hand , the author smoothly analizes everone's tragic destiny : so unrewarded , yet so intense...

[Ella Patricia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fefeleaga (1908) - 3/5
Luminita (1908) - 3/5
Valea-Dracului (1909) - 3/5
Dura lex (1921) - 3/5
Melentea (1910) - 2/5
Dinu Natului (1912) - 3/5
Darul lui Mos Miron (1919) - 4/5
Popa Man (1910) - 4/5
Jandarmul (1941) - 4/5