Mihail Sadoveanu (1880–1961)

Sadoveanu, who wrote more than 120 books, is generally considered to be Rumania's greatest prose writer. His fiction is being published for the first time in this country under a U.S.-Rumanian cultural exchange program. Tales of War (1905) was inspired by the people's heroism in the 1877 War of afficher plus Independence against Turkey. In Evening Tales he also writes of the common folk, from innkeepers to gypsies. In The Mud-Hut Dwellers (1912), "vivid descriptions of peasant life in nineteenth-century Rumania charm and captivate the reader... . The novel is an affirmation of man, of the joy and love which can be his in spite of his condition" (Choice). (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins