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.

George Călinescu who saw in it " an echo of Nae Ionescu's lectures ", traced a parallel with the essays of another of Ionescu's disciples, Emil Cioran, while noting that Cioran's were " of a more exulted tone and written in the aphoristic form of Kierkegaard ".

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 objected to the narrative, arguing that both the physical affair and the father's rage seemed artificial, while commenting that Eliade placing doubt on his Indian characters ' honesty had turned the plot into a piece of " ethnological humor ".

Călinescu saw the piece as an allusion to Gnosticism, to the Kabbalah, and to Babylonian mythology, while linking the snake to the Greek mythological figure and major serpent symbol Ophion.

The king instead sought an agreement with other members of the political class, including the National Liberal Ion Duca and the former PNŢ politician Armand Călinescu, while clamping down on the Iron Guard — leading to a wave of similar actions in reprisal.

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.

A similar view was expressed by Vianu's predecessor, Silvian Iosifescu, who also stressed that Caragiale always avoided applying the Naturalist technique to its fullest, while George Călinescu himself believed that the characters ' motivations in O făclie de Paşte are actually physiological and ethnological.

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.

Călinescu also wrote poems ( Lauda lucrurilor ) and plays ( Şun, mit mongol ) while continuing to practice journalism, although Cronicile mizantropului abruptly became Cronicile optimistului after the Communists seized power in 1947.

Călinescu was captivated by Pârvan's erudition and work ethic, but also by his existential philosophy.

Investigating the works ' main characteristics, George Călinescu stressed that Eliade owed much of his style to the direct influence of French author André Gide, concluding that, alongside Camil Petrescu and a few others, Eliade was among Gide's leading disciples in Romanian literature.

George Călinescu criticized the book for inconsistencies and " excesses in Dostoyevskianism ", but noted that the Lecca family portrayal was " suggestive ", and that the dramatic scenes were written with " a remarkable poetic calm.

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's short story Şarpele (" The Snake ") was described by George Călinescu as " hermetic ".

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.

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.

Matei Călinescu did not reject Culianu's version, but argued that, on its own, the piece was beyond political interpretations.

Also, George Călinescu was a more complex writer who, among different literary creations, produced the monumental " History of the Romanian literature, from its origins till present day ".

According to literary historian George Călinescu, Iorga's " huge " and " monstrously " comprehensive research, leaving no other historian " the joy of adding something ", was matched by the everyday persona, a " hero of the ages ".

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

Călinescu suggests that Iorga was an " anachronistic " type in his context: " approved only by failures ", aged before his time, modeling himself on ancient chroniclers and out of place in modern historiography.

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.

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.

On March 7, 1939, a new government was formed with Călinescu as prime minister ; on September 21, 1939, he, in turn was assassinated by legionnaires avenging Codreanu.

After the fascist National Legionary State was proclaimed by the Iron Guard in late 1940, a bronze bust of former Premier Armand Călinescu ( whom the Guard had assassinated in September 1939 ), was chained and dragged through the city streets.

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 ".

The latter conclusion was partly shared by Călinescu, Tudor Vianu and literary researcher Z. Ornea.

The ban on the Guard was again tightly enforced, with Călinescu ordering all public places known to have harbored Legion meetings to be closed down ( including several restaurants in Bucharest ).

Armand Călinescu ( 4 June 1893 – 21 September 1939 ) was a Romanian economist and politician, who served as Prime Minister between March 1939 and the time of his death.

He was born in Piteşti as the son of Mihai Călinescu, a Romanian Army veteranian, and his wife Ecaterina, née Gherasim.

Mihai Călinescu was a landowner and relatively wealthy man.

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.

Călinescu remained in office during the authoritarian regime established by King Carol after that date — he was also a founding member of the National Renaissance Front ( FRN ) created by as the sole legal party in December 1938, and was generally seen as very close to Carol.

Polemically, Călinescu proposed that Mircea Eliade's supposed focus on " aggressive youth " and served to instill his interwar Romanian writers with the idea that they had a common destiny as a generation apart.

" 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 ".

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

According to Călinescu, the inebriated citizen worships authority as a " supreme god ", despite all its absurdities.

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 ".

An intellectual with liberal-left ideas who nonetheless proved flexible enough to write praises of the King under Carol's dictatorship, Călinescu outwardly adhered to the new Communist ideology after 1947, likely noting the practical advantages of such a shift in loyalties.

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.

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 ).

George Călinescu also believed that, aside from his individual nature, Zibal provided readers with an accurate insight into Jewish reactions to systemic persecution and death threats.