Grigore Alexandrescu

Grigore Alexandrescu (* February 22, 1810 or 1812 in Targoviste, † November 25, 1885 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian writer, poet and translator who was particularly known for his fables with political background.

Biography

Grigore was born as the fourth child of a checkout master in a suburb of Targoviste. As he stood out from an early age by special intelligence and an exceptional memory, he was promoted, also learned Greek and French, but was still a child an orphan. In 1827 he moved to Bucharest and stayed for a while in the care of an uncle, the, training enabled him to in those days very prestigious " school Vaillant ", which was affiliated with the College " Sfântul Sava " in Bucharest. He amazed many by his poetic talent. Alexandrescu at school was a comrade of the later mathematician and politician Ion Ghica and the co-founder of the Romanian Academy ( Academia Română) Ion Heliade - Rădulescu. In the latter, in 1832 his first poem and Elogenband contained therein " Miezul nopţii " (midnight ) and the elegy " Adio. La Targoviste " should publish in Curierul Românesc, he was allowed to live for a long time.

Alexandrescu struck after the officer's career one, but left the army already in 1837. Due to his writings " Anul 1840 " and " Lebada şi PUII Corbului " he was even arrested and imprisoned. In 1848 he worked as editor of the newspaper Suveran Poporul. In the same year he joined a Masonic Lodge in Bucharest.

But at the age of 50 years Alexandrescu fell suddenly getting more deranged, could no longer write and publish soon and died penniless. According to one version to the disease after the poet had eaten one sent by a former lover of his numerous poisoned jam, have broken out.

According to him, many streets were named in Romania, not only in the capital Bucharest and Targoviste city of his birth, but among other things, in Arad, Cluj and Timişoara.

Literary activity

Grigore Alexandrescu, the translator of the works of, among others, Alphonse de Lamartine and George Gordon Byron, who influenced him in his work, is considered a representative of the Romanian Mihai Eminescu romance and pioneering. For the time in which he lived, he was an innovative poet, trying to propose a new artistic language.

Convinced that God was absent, and man alone in the world, Grigore consequently became obsessed with the idea of imperfection of man. His vacillation between skepticism and resignation creates an impression of modernity.

He expressed the rejection of the Christian solution to the human dilemma and derided the consolations offered by the reason as not only possible courses of action in his " MEDITATII " of 1835.

In its approximately 40 fables he commented ironically the complications of life in a Russian protectorate - what was Wallachia at that time - and tried to readers to encourage them to be proud of their national heritage. His work "On the graves of Drăgăşani " recalled the size of the Romanian past. He was looking for a point of equilibrium in the world and that seemed to him to have succeeded in the clear and realistic analysis of human nature in his " Fabule ".

It is the merit Alexandrescus that letter, meditation and satire have been established as an independent literary genres in the Romanian literature.

Works (summary)

  • Poezii (1832 )
  • Fabule (1832 )
  • MEDITATII (1835 )
  • Poezii (1838 )
  • Fabule (1838 )
  • Poezii (1839 )
  • Memorial (1842 )
  • Poezii (1842 )
  • Suvenire şi impresii, epistole şi fabule (1847 )
  • MEDITATII, elegii, epistole, satire şi fabule (1863 )

Works for future reference (Romanian)

  • Adio. La Targoviste
  • Anul 1840
  • Aşteptarea
  • Boul şi viţelul
  • Bursucul şi vulpea
  • Câinele soldatului
  • Câinele şi căţelul
  • Candela
  • Cantece de peste Olt
  • Catîrul cu clopoţei
  • Cimitirul
  • Corbii şi barza
  • Dreptatea leului
  • Eliza
  • Epistola catre Voltaire
  • Inca o zi
  • Lupul moralist
  • Mormintele. La Drăgăşani
  • Miezul nopţii
  • Meditatie
  • Răzbunarea şoarecilor moartea sau lui Sion
  • Şarlatanul şi bolnavul
  • Unirea Principatelor
  • Vulpoiul predicator
  • Other works for future reference
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