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Mihai Sadoveanu

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Mihail Sadoveanu novelist (1880-1961)

Mihail Sadoveanu was born on November 5, 1880 in Pascani, department of Suceava, wire of the lawyer Alexandre Sadoveanu and Profira Ursache, girl of an old family of the free peasants. It makes its studies with Falticeni, then in Iasi.
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As of its adolescence it starts to write and publish its first novels, fascinated by the literary world of Ion Creanga and interested particularly by the historical subjects.
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It starts to make studies of right, stopped by the military training course.

From 1904 it lives in Bucharest or will marry and to have a large family (eleven children).

Its literary beginning, in 1904, noticed by general public and the literary critic is impressive: it publishes, the same year, a first collection of prose “Pains choked”, “Tales”, “the bar of Petcu Old man” and “the Falcons”.

The largest Rumanian historian, Nicolae Iorga said: “1900 were the Sadoveanu year”.

From 1906 it starts to think of leaving any administrative office and of living of its writings. Thus, it decides to install its family with Falticeni.

In 1909 he becomes the director of the National Theatre of Iasi by always publishing books of prose, news and novels. In 1912, it publishes its novel “Neamul Soimarestilor” a full fresco of the life of Moldavia at the XVII century.

Between 1913 -1917 as a reserve officer, it is mobilized and takes part in the countryside in Bulgaria, during the First World War it remains mobilized while following the way of the Rumanian army which was withdrawn in Moldavia.

After the war it settles with the family with Iasi, in the cartier known under the name of “Copou”, in houses which belonged to Mihail Kogalniceanu.

From 1919 he becomes editor of an important literary magazine (with Tudor Arghezi.)

Between the two world wars Mihail Sadoveanu written and publish the majority of its books among which: “The Shades”, “Neagra Sarului”, “the Street Lapusneanu”, “a mill on the river of Siret”, “the inn of Ancuta”, “the country beyond the fog”, “the Empire of water”, “odd Fact”, “Times of the voïvode Duca”, “the marriage of the Ruxandra princess”, “the place or nothing occur”, “the gold branch”, “the Nights of Sanzaiene”, “Easter of benign people”, and the chief of work of the literature for the children, “the marvelous coppice”

In 1929 it publishes the small novel “the hatchet” inspired by the “Miorita” (Rumanian popular ballade), synthesis of the philosophy of life of the Rumanian people.

Mihai Sadoveanu is a personality respected, called “the patriarch of the Rumanian literature”, writer loved by the public, it becomes member of the Rumanian Academy in 1921 and represents the Company of the Rumanian Writers to the Congress of the Writers of Berlin, dimensioned of Liviu Rebreanu.

Mihail Sadoveanu directs to Bucharest to leave the 1936 newspapers progressists “the Morning” and “the Truth” expressing a antinazism attitude; Forces of the right-hand side Nazis of the time one flaring his books in public places.

The intellectuals of the time supported the activity of the writer who receives in 1938 the title of “Honorary doctor” of the University of Iasi.

It publishes the “Tales of a hunter”, “the stories of the Beautiful river” and other tales inspired by the picturesque landscapes of Bucovina and the voyages to the length of the river Bistrita Dorée.

During the war his/her son junior is killed in the fights for the release of Transylvania.

After the war Mihail Sadoveanu received the honors of the socialist mode, mode imposed by Soviet.

It dies in 1961 and is buried with the Bellu Cemetery with dimensions of Mihai Eminescu.

In the a hundred and twenty books published during its life, Mihai Sadoveanu was the proof of its large tiller of narrator, with a rare force of description and using a Rumanian language pigmented of the softness of the language spoken in Moldavie and Bucovina.

It A creates novels essence for the Rumanian literature like the large historical fresco “the Brothers Jderi” or “Neamul Soimarestilor”.

The principal character of the novel “the hatchet”, the woman of a shepherd Bucovinei, Vitoria Lipan it is the prototype of the Rumanian woman.

Intelligent and intuitive, it leaves on the river Bistrita Dorée to research her husband, of which it does not have any news for a long time.

With tenacity and subtlety, it discovers the corpse of her husband, and finds the assassins of this one, those led to the crime by greed.

Many books of Mihai Sadoveanu, were the movies worships base:

“Neamul Soimarestilor” 1965, realizer Mircea Dragan,

“Baltagul” 1969, realizer Mircea Muresan,

“Fratii Jderi” 1973, realizer Mircea Dragan,

“Ochi of urs” 1983 realizer Gulea Stere, with the large Rumanian singer Sofia Vicoveanca, originating in Bucovina, in the principal role.

Text: Cléopatra Lorintiu

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