Documents from the collections of the National Library, which promote the work of George Călinescu, will be on display from today, June 19, until July 31, on the occasion of the celebration of the 125th anniversary of the writer’s birthday, IPN reports.
The exhibition entitled “Encyclopedic Personality of Romanian Culture and Literature – George Călinescu” is systematized into a number of divisions: Literary criticism. Studies. Chronicles, Life and Literary Work, and George Călinescu in Romanian Literary Criticism.
George Călinescu was born on June 19, 1899 in Bucharest. In 1908, he enrolled at “Gheorghe Șincai” secondary school. He studied at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy in Bucharest. In 1923, he received his bachelor’s degree in languages. He became a Latin language teacher at several high schools in Bucharest and Timisoara, then went to Rome for a period of two years with a scholarship for the “Romanian School in Rome”, an institution of Romanian cultural propaganda. He carried out fundamental studies on great Romanian writers, and after 1945, Călinescu published studies and essays on universal literature.
In November 1964 he was hospitalized with the diagnosis of liver cirrhosis at the Otopeni Sanatorium, and on March 12, 1965, George Călinescu passed away, leaving “a fundamental work for the culture of the Romanian people”, according to the literary epitaph signed by Geo Bogza.
The exhibition can be visited between June 19 and July 31, 2024 at the National Library, second floor, the central block.
