Camil Petrescu is known as the Romanian Proust, since he was a big fan of him. He tries to write objectives novels with a psychological analysis touch. As well, he marked the end of the traditional novel era and laid the foundation of the modern novel era, not only writing novels but poetry.
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CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE
Camil Petrescu was born the 22th April 1894 in Bucharest. He lost his parents very young and was raised by a nurse.
He studied in several schools all around the Romanian capital
First, in 1900 he studied at Obor Primary School for 6 years, located in the Obor district.
In 1906 he moved into another school: Sfantul Sava middle school, located Strada General H. M. Berthelot 23, Bucharest
Sfantul Sava Middle School (Source: Wikipedia)
In 1910 he moved to Gheorghe Lazar High School, located at Bulevardul Regina Elisabeta 48, Bucharest 050018
Gheorghe Lazar High School (Source: Wikipédia)
In 1913 Petrescu joined the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Bucharest until 1916.
THE FIRST WORLD WAR
Afterwards his studies, in 1916, he was enlisted in the army for the First World War. Firstly, he fought in the battle of Munteny and Transilvany, then in the eastern Carpathians mountains in 1917 where he got wound (he lost partially one ear) and he fell prisoner by Hungary. He stayed in a Hungarian camp until 1919, where he became freed.
His experience during the First World War allows Petrescu writing his book "The last night of love, the first night of war", published in 1930.
AFTER THE WAR
In 1920, just after the war, he came back to Bucharest to become teacher of Romanian language in his old Gheorghe Lazar High School, and later in a high school in Lugoj. He traveled to Vienna for medical treatments to correct his hearing problems. Back in Bucharest, he published a lot of works until 1934 in magazines, newspapers, etc.
In 1934, he worked as an editor, and then, he was promoted to editor-in-chiefs for the Royal Foundations Review, where the office was located at Bulevardul Lascăr Catargiu 39, București (Today, it's the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran).
Royal Foundations Review (Source: www.zilesinopti.ro)
Between 1936 and 1939, Camil Petrescu was vice-president and later president of the Romanian Playwrights Society. He became director of the National Theater of Bucharest in 1939 for 10 months. The next summer, he traveled to Paris and London to negotiate collaborations with foreign directors.
National Theater of Bucharest (Source: Wikipédia)
In 1947, he became a member of the Romanian Academy, which nowadays is The Romanian Academy Library building. The Academy exchanges publications with other academies, scientific institutions, university libraries and other libraries abroad and coordinates the activity of publication exchange between the subsidiaries of the Romanian Academy. It is also the nucleus of the subsidiaries and research institutions of the Academy.
The Romanian Academy Library building (Source: Codart)
DEATH
Camil Petrescu died the 14th May of 1957, at the age of 63 years old in Bucharest and buried in Bellu cemetery, alley of writers.
The cemetery is the largest and most famous one in Bucharest. It is located on a plot of land donated to the local administration by Baron Barbu Bellu. It has been in use since 1858 to the present year.
Bellu cemetery (Source: Wikimedia)
