A decade later, George Călinescu described in detail the historian's public speaking routine: the " zmeu "- like introductory outbursts, the episodes of " idle grace ", the apparent worries, the occasional anger and the intimate, calm, addresses to his bewildered audience.

One year later, under the National Legionary State ( the Iron Guard's government ), Marinescu and Argeşanu, alongside other politicians, were executed in Jilava ( September 1940 ); it was also at that time that the Călinescu family crypt in Curtea de Argeş was dynamited, while a bronze bust of him which awaited unveiling was chained and dragged through the streets of Piteşti.

Călinescu developed a strong friendship with Ortiz ; years later, he would give Ortiz credit for helping him " seize " a literary education of extraordinary quality.

One is glory, determined by either work or procreation, and the other the asceticism of religion or magic — both, Călinescu believed, where aimed at reaching the absolute, even in those cases where Eliade described the latter as an " abyssal experience " into which man may take the plunge.

According to Călinescu, Iorga was visibly embarrassed by even 19th century Romanticism, out of his territory with virtually everything after " Villani and Commynes ", and endorsing the " obscure manqués " in modern Romanian letters.

The antiquated polished style, Călinescu notes, even surfaced in his works of research, which revived the picturesque tone of medieval chronicles.

When Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland, Romania granted refuge to members of Poland's fleeing government, and even after the assassination of Călinescu, King Carol tried to maintain neutrality, but France's surrender and Britain's retreat from Europe rendered them unable to fulfil their assurances to Romania.

From 1948 to 1953 Călinescu was mistrusted and marginalized, despite being named to the Academy of the Romanian People's Republic in 1949 ; even after destalinization began in the Soviet Union in 1953, the Romanian establishment continued to favor the " wooden-tongued ," socialist realist models the Soviets had begun to abandon.

* 1939 – Romanian Prime Minister Armand Călinescu is assassinated by ultranationalist members of the Iron Guard.

" A specific aspect of this focus on experience is sexual experimentation — Călinescu notes that Eliade's fiction works tend to depict a male figure " possessing all practicable women in given family ".

Thus, commentators such as Matei Călinescu and Carmen Muşat have also argued that a main characteristic of Eliade's fantasy prose is a substitution between the supernatural and the mundane: in this interpretation, Eliade turns the daily world into an incomprehensible place, while the intrusive supernatural aspect promises to offer the sense of life.

George Călinescu is another complex personality of the Romanian literature: novelist, playwright, poet, literary critic and historian, essayist, journalist.

It is generally agreed that there was no such escape attempt, and that Codreanu and the others were killed on the King's orders, probably in reaction to the November 24, 1938, murder by legionnaires of a relative ( some sources say a " friend ") of Armand Călinescu, then Minister of the Interior in the King's cabinet.

In opposition to the Gheorghe Tătărescu PNL cabinet, Călinescu warned against the latter's tolerant stance toward the Legionaries, especially after the murder of Ion G. Duca in December 1933 and the desecration of his memorial plate in 1936 (" The Iron Guard is not a movement of the opinion, but rather an association of assassins and foul profaners of tombs ").

He soon became involved in a virulent dispute with historian Nicolae Iorga, when the latter issued harsh criticism regarding Carol's January 1939 initiative to dress large sections of the society, including Romanian Academy members, in various uniforms ( a measure backed by Călinescu ); Iorga remarked with irony: " I'm prepared to wear the FRN uniform, but allow me to wear a speared helmet on my head, on which to place is, to Impalement | impale the Minister of the Interior ".

In parallel, literary critic George Călinescu argued that " he typological structure is present in Caragiale's work as a supporting structure, without being essential.

The trilogy is not without its critics ; George Călinescu argued that Teodoreanu's style was too laden with metaphors and rather baroque.

Călinescu observed that while Pârvan's natural aptitude was fairly common, his tendency to exercise all the powers of his mind in the ascetic pursuit of an intellectual ideal was transformed into an existential philosophy: Life is transitory, but man can defeat death and oblivion through creation, thus leaving a permanent record of a temporary existence.

Călinescu was deposed from his position at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bucharest after the establishment in power of the Communist Party of Romania.

According to Călinescu, the " philosopher-myths " ( Iorga and Pârvan ) also shaped the anti-Junimist outlook of the 1930s Trăirists, who returned to ethnic nationalism and looked favorably on the Dacian layer of Romanian identity.

If in Bucharest, alongside Ramiro Ortiz, Călinescu realized his vocation as a creative artist and scholar, his attention in Rome was focused on Vasile Pârvan, the director of the Accademia di Romania.

This differentiation, George Călinescu believed, echoed Ionescu's metaphor of man, seen as " the only animal who can fail at living ", and the duck, who " shall remain a duck no matter what it does ".

" Călinescu thought that the young male characters all owed inspiration to Fyodor Dostoevsky's Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov ( see Crime and Punishment ).

The system relied instead on the new Constitution of 1938, the financial backing received from large business, and the winning over of several more or less traditional politicians, such as Nicolae Iorga and the Internal Affairs Minister Armand Călinescu ( see National Renaissance Front ).

In May, after witnessing the result of Nazi pressures on Austria ( see Anschluss ), Călinescu decapitated the Guard by ordering arrests of its leaders, beginning with that of Codreanu, as well as many of its members and sympathisers ( including Nae Ionescu and Mircea Eliade ).

Călinescu recorded Eliade's rejection of objectivity, citing the author's stated indifference towards any " naïveté " or " contradictions " that the reader could possibly reproach him, as well as his dismissive thoughts of " theoretical data " and mainstream philosophy in general ( Eliade saw the latter as " inert, infertile and pathogenic ").

Ironically, Călinescu had never trusted the safety of his Cadillac, and had repeatedly asked Gavrilă Marinescu to allow him use of an armored car.

The literary creations of Émile Zola were a noted source of inspiration, and the parallel led George Călinescu to propose him and Barbu Ştefănescu Delavrancea as the main representatives of Zola's style in local literature.

Time Magazine described him as a " puppet Premier " of Carol II, whereas historian Joseph Rothschild considered that it was Cristea's vice-prime-minister, Armand Călinescu, who held the power in the Cristea government.

Călinescu would always return to this " spiritual father " whenever the difficulties of life seemed to bring him to his knees.

Early on, George Călinescu argued that the totalitarian model outlined in Huliganii was: " An allusion to certain bygone political movements [...], sublimated in the ever so abstruse philosophy of death as a path to knowledge.

George Călinescu referred to this series as Iorga's " interesting " and " eminently subjective " literature ; " dignified " and dominated by " explosions of sentiment ", it echoes, according to Călinescu, the Renaissance model of Ion Neculce.

Noting that the plot and setting reminded one of horror fiction works by the German author Hanns Heinz Ewers, and defending Domnişoara Christina in front of harsher criticism, Călinescu nonetheless argued that the " international environment " in which it took place was " upsetting ".

Eliade himself referenced the story and Aldous Huxley's experiments in the same section of his private notes, a matter which allowed Matei Călinescu to propose that Un om mare was a direct product of its author's experience with drugs.

According to George Călinescu, Nicolae Iorga was overdependent on his memory, which could result in " utterly fictitious " critical apparatuses for his scientific works.

A generation younger than Ibrăileanu, George Călinescu also noted the contrast between Mihail Kogălniceanu and his predecessors, as two sets of " Messianist " intellectuals — in this contrast, Heliade Rădulescu was " hazy and egotistic ", whereas Kogălniceanu and others had " a mission which they knew how to translate into positive terms ".

Călinescu observed that much of Kogălniceanu's own prose works imitated the style of his friend Costache Negruzzi, without carrying the same artistic weight, while noting that his few works of autobiography featured " pages of gracious good-natured melancholy ", which he attributed to the author's traditional upbringing.

His equally firm opposition to the fast rise of the fascist Iron Guard ( the Legionaries, a group he helped outlaw in January 1931 ), contributed to the fall of the 1933 Vaida-Voevod government of which Călinescu was a member.

Having been secretly blacklisted at the same time as Nicolae Titulescu, Dinu Brătianu, and General Gavrilă Marinescu, Călinescu was assassinated in Bucharest by Iron Guard members under the direct leadership of Sima ( exiled in Steglitz at the time ), the last of several attempts ( which included an attack on the Romanian Athenaeum and bombing a bridge over the Dâmboviţa River — both of which were uncovered by police ).

While passing through the Eroilor area on its return from the Cotroceni Palace, Călinescu's luxury automobile, a Cadillac, was ambushed by that of the assassins, who shot Călinescu, his bodyguard Radu Andone, and his driver ( Miti Dumitrescu drove his car into the Premier's, which came to sudden stop as it ran into a cart — Andone was gunned down as he stepped out of the car, and Călinescu as he stood waiting on the back seat ; over twenty bullets were recovered from his body ).

Uniquely among students of Caragiale's work, George Călinescu argued that the writer's main interest was not in criticizing the liberals, but actually in an overall rejection of the most embedded Junimist tenets, which, in Călinescu's view, had engendered " a lack of faith in the country's own powers ".

Another change in Cristea's government was on February 1, 1939, which gave extensive powers to Călinescu, who became virtually the head of the cabinet, while Cristea remained nominally the Prime Minister at the King's insistence.

By 1932, it was hosting contributions from George Călinescu, including one which criticized his former disciple Boz, and excerpts from Lovinescu's memoirs.

The Romanian Academy's George Călinescu Institute, which claims the copyright to Călinescu's books, joined Editura Litera in a lawsuit against Adevărul.