In 1909, by now an aspiring writer and well-known journalist, Rebreanu crossed the Carpathians into Romania and moved to Bucharest. His debut in Romanian took place after his resignation from the military, in 1908, with the novella Codrea (Glasul inimii) (Codrea, The Voice of the Heart), published in the literary magazine Luceafărul from Sibiu. That is where he began to write seriously short stories and plays, all in Hungarian. Upon graduation, he was dispatched as a young sublieutenant of the Austro-Hungarian military to Gyula, in Hungary.
Although attracted by the study of medicine, he enrolled at the Ludoviceum Military Academy in Budapest in 1903. The eldest of fourteen siblings, Liviu was the son of Vasile (1863-1914), a rural elementary school teacher-and as such, a member of the village intelligentsia-and Ludovica (1865-1945), a talented amateur actress, well-known locally.Īn ethnic Romanian, Rebreanu was educated in Hungarian and German, first in Transylvania, then in Hungary, and showed an excellent aptitude for the study of foreign languages and humanities. Liviu Rebreanu was born in the small Transylvanian village of Târlişua, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and today in the county of Bistriţa Năsăud, in Romania. Rebreanu’s early experimentation with various novelistic formats was crucial for the success of contemporary and subsequent writers alike and demonstrated the maturity of the modern Romanian language and national psyche to engage with the ample breadth of the architecture and style of the novel. Caragiale (1885-1936), and Panait Istrati (1884-1935), a generation that shaped the evolution of Romanian literature well into the postwar period and beyond. Hailing from rural Transylvania, Rebreanu was a novelist and prose writer, a playwright and translator, an iconic figure in the world of letters and a member of the golden generation of modernist writers alongside Mihail Sadoveanu (1880-1961), Camil Petrescu (1894-1957), Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu (1876-1955), Mircea Eliade (1907-1986), Mateiu I. Liviu Rebreanu (1885-1944) is one of the most important literary voices in Romania’s interwar period.
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