Păstorel Teodoreanu
| Alexandru Osvald "Păstorel" Teodoreanu | |
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Păstorel, in a 1930s postcard
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| Born |
July 30, 1894 Dorohoi, Dorohoi County, Kingdom of Romania |
| Died | March 17, 1964 (aged 69) Bucharest, People's Republic of Romania |
| Pen name | Iorgu Arghiropol-Buzatu, Hidalgo Bărbulescu, Mița Cursista, Nicu Modestie, Mic dela Pirandola, Vălătuc |
| Occupation | poet, columnist, food critic, lawyer, soldier, propagandist |
| Nationality | Romanian |
| Period | 1916–1964 |
| Genre | aphorism, comedy, epigram, erotic literature, essay, fable, fantasy, frame story, historical novel, parody, pastiche, sketch story, sonnet |
| Literary movement | Symbolism, Gândirea, Viața Românească |
Păstorel Teodoreanu, or just Păstorel (born Alexandru Osvald (Al. O.) Teodoreanu; July 30, 1894 – March 17, 1964), was a Romanian humorist, poet and gastronome, the brother of novelist Ionel Teodoreanu and brother in law of writer Ștefana Velisar Teodoreanu. He worked in many genres, but is best remembered for his parody texts and his epigrams, and less so for his Symbolist verse. His roots planted in the regional culture of Western Moldavia, which became his main source of literary inspiration, Păstorel was at once an opinionated columnist, famous wine-drinking bohemian, and decorated war hero. He worked with the influential literary magazines of the 1920s, moving between Gândirea and Viața Românească, and cultivated complex relationships with literary opinion-makers such as George Călinescu.
After an unsuccessful but scandalous debut in drama, Teodoreanu perfected his work as a satirist, producing material which targeted the historian-politician Nicolae Iorga and the literary scholar Giorge Pascu, as well as food criticism which veered into fantasy literature. As an affiliate of Țara Noastră, he favored a brand of Romanian nationalism which ran against Iorga's own. Corrosive or contemplative, Păstorel's various sketches dealt with social and political issues of the interwar, continuing in some ways the work of Ion Luca Caragiale. In the 1930s, inspired by his readings from Anatole France and François Rabelais, he also published his celebrated "Jewster Harrow" stories, mocking the conventions of historical novels and Renaissance literature. His career peaked in 1937, when he received one of Romania's most prestigious awards, the National Prize.
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