N. Petrașcu

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1859 – 1944

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Who was N. Petrașcu?

N. Petraşcu or Pĕtraşcu was a Romanian journalist, essayist, literary critic, novelist, and memoirist. The author of monographs on major figures in Romanian literature, Petraşcu was originally affiliated with the conservative literary society Junimea, but did not embrace all its tenets. Like his friend, novelist Duiliu Zamfirescu, he parted with the group and, together with Dimitrie C. Ollănescu-Ascanio, established a new circle around the magazine Literatură şi Artă Română.

During the 1890s, his group carried an extended polemic with Junimea, and Petraşcu developed his own tenets, which took Historicism, Sociological positivism, and Determinism as its main sources of inspiration. He was also noted for endorsing the views of Western European thinkers such as Hippolyte Taine and Émile Hennequin. In this context, he engaged in public debates with the Junimist intellectuals Titu Maiorescu, P. P. Negulescu, and Mihail Dragomirescu. Alongside Ollănescu-Ascanio and Zamfirescu, his circle came to include, among others, poet Alexandru Vlahuţă, novelist Gala Galaction, and architect Ion Mincu. N. Petraşcu was the brother of Gheorghe Petraşcu, a renowned painter.

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Born
Dec 5, 1859
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  • Tecuci
Died
May 24, 1944

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on July 23, 2013

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