Constantin Sandu-Aldea
Constantin Sandu-Aldea (November 22, 1874 – March 21, 1927) was a Romanian agronomist and prose writer.
Born in
Sandu-Aldea made his literary debut with poems in Vieața (1896), also writing for Lumea nouă literară și științifică, Familia, Floare-albastră, Curierul literar, Sămănătorul, Convorbiri Literare, Luceafărul and Viața Românească, and using the pen names S. Voinea, C. Răsvan, S. Dancu, Cheptea, Stan Pârjol and Miron Aldea. He wrote a number of valued scientific texts about wheat; his prose fiction deals especially with rural subjects and attempts to reveal the depth and diversity of the peasant soul. Representative works include Drum și popas (1904), În urma plugului (1905) and Pe drumul Bărăganului (1908), collections of tales and short stories; and the novels Două neamuri (1906) and Pe Mărgineanca (1912), which feature bitter conflicts between social classes, resolved in Sămănătorist fashion. He translated works by Henrik Ibsen, Hermann Sudermann, Pierre Loti and Leonid Andreyev.[1]
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- ^ ISBN 973-697-758-7
- ^ (in Romanian) Membrii Academiei Române din 1866 până în prezent at the Romanian Academy site
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