

Also drafted, Puiuţu Teodoreanu died on the front during the battles of 1918. His fighting earned him the Star of Romania and the rank of Captain. The future writer saw action in the Battle of Transylvania, then withdrew with the defeated armies into besieged Moldavia. As he recalled, his emotional father accompanied him as far west as the army would allow. When, in 1916, Romania joined the Entente Powers, Alexandru was mobilized, a Sub-lieutenant in the 24th artillery regiment, Romanian Land Forces. Over the following months, Osvald Teodoreanu became known for his support of prolonged neutrality, which set the stage for a minor political scandal. In 1914, just as World War I broke out elsewhere in Europe, he was undergoing military training at a Moldavian cadet school. Years later, in one of his reviews for Botez's books, Teodoreanu confessed that he once used to steal wine from Botez's own carboy. He was friends with a future literary colleague, Demostene Botez, with whom he shared lodging at the boarding school. He had a vivid interest in literary activities and, critics note, acquired a solid classical culture. įrom 1906, Alexandru Osvald attended the National High School Iaşi. They were neighbors of poetess Otilia Cazimir and relatives of novelist Mărgărita Miller Verghy.

The Teodoreanus lived in a townhouse just outside Zlataust Church. Teodoreanu, had previously served as City Mayor. Ionel ( Ioan-Hipolit Teodoreanu) and Puiuţu ( Laurenţiu Teodoreanu) were his younger siblings, born after the family had moved to Iaşi, the Moldavian capital city. When Păstorel was born, on July 30, 1894, she and her husband were living at Dorohoi.

Sofia was the daughter of Gavril Muzicescu, a famous composer from Moldavia. The Teodoreanu brothers were born to Sofia Muzicescu, wife of the lawyer Osvald Al. His work was largely inaccessible to readers until the 1989 Revolution.īiography Early life and World War I service He died shortly after, without having been fully rehabilitated. He spent some two years in prison, and reemerged as a conventional writer.
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In 1959, Teodoreanu was apprehended by the communist authorities, and prosecuted in a larger show trial of Romanian intellectual resistants. Beyond this facade conformity, he contributed to the emergence of an underground, largely oral, anti-communist literature. From 1947, Păstorel was marginalized and closely supervised by the, making efforts to adapt his style and politics. He was later employed as a World War II propagandist, which caused him to be shunned by Romanian leftists. Teodoreanu's career peaked in 1937, when he received one of Romania's most prestigious awards, the National Prize.

He worked with the influential literary magazines of the 1920s, moving between Gândirea and Viaţa Românească, and cultivated complex relationships with literary opinion-makers such as George Călinescu. His roots planted in the regional culture of Moldavia, which became his main source of literary inspiration, Păstorel was at once an opinionated columnist, famous wine-drinking bohemian, and decorated war hero. He worked in many genres, but is best remembered for his parody texts and his epigrams, and less so for his Symbolist verse. O.) Teodoreanu J– March 17, 1964), was a Romanian humorist, poet and gastronome, the brother of novelist Ionel Teodoreanu. Păstorel Teodoreanu, or just Păstorel (born Alexandru Osvald (Al. Poet, columnist, food critic, lawyer, soldier Dorohoi, Dorohoi County, Kingdom of Romania
