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Nichifor Crainic
Romanian author
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contribution to Romanian literature
- In Romanian literature: Between the wars
…styles can be illustrated by Nichifor Crainic’s religious traditionalist tendency, the programmatic esoterica of Ion Barbu (who was also an internationally renowned mathematician), the influence of French and German lyric poetry on Ion Pillat, and the bitter Symbolist poetry of George Bacovia. After Eminescu, who remained influential throughout the 20th…
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view of Romanian development
- In Romania: Shifts in society and economy
…example, the journalist and theologian Nichifor Crainic—who insisted that the country remain true to its Eastern Orthodox spiritual heritage. In between stood the economist Virgil Madgearu, who advocated a “third way” of development, neither capitalist nor collectivist but rooted in small-scale peasant agriculture.
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