The Girl of the Forest
By Ioan Slavici
1966
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Ioan Slavici is one of the classics of Romanian literature. He wrote short stories, novels, plays, and philological, political, and educational essays. He is the creator in Romanian literature of "peasant realism," a literary approach subsequently adopted and developed by a long series of Romanian prose writers which attained its most accomplished artistic achievements in Liviu Rebreanu's novel, "Ion."
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Ioan Slavici
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Ioan Slavici was a Transylvanian-born Romanian writer and journalist. He made his debut in Convorbiri literare ("Literary Conversations") (1871), with the comedy Fata de birău ("The Mayor's Daughter"). Alongside Eminescu he founded the Young Romania Social and Literary Academic Society and organized, in 1871, the Putna Celebration of the Romanian Students from Romania and from abroad. At the end of 1874, he settled in Bucharest, where he became secretary of the Hurmuzachi Collection Committee, then he became a professor, and then an editor of the newspaper Timpul ("The Time"). Alongside I. L. Caragiale and G. Coşbuc, he edited the Vatra ("The Heath") review. During the first World War, he collaborated at the newspapers Ziua ("Daytime") and Gazeta Bucureştilor ("The Bucharest Gazette"). He was awarded the Romanian Academy Award (1903).
