Ion, Volume 1

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Twayne Publishers, 1967 - Fiction - 442 pages

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THE BEGINNING
3
TORMENT
33
LOVE
64
Copyright

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About the author (1967)

The eminent novelist, theater critic, playwright, and essayist Liviu Rebreanu was at the height of his influence in the years between the two world wars. An innovator in Rumanian literature, he is remembered particularly for his portrayals of Rumanian villagers living under hardship, and for his treatment of war and revolution. He wrote many short stories before turning to longer fiction. Of the novels, Ion (1920), a vast panorama of Transylvanian village life before World War I, is a "landmark in the history of the Rumanian novel" (Cassell's Encyclopaedia of World Literature). The Forest of the Hanged, about that war, and Uprising (1932), about a peasants' revolt, are his two other important novels.

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