Literary works of the writer: Short Stories ("Fools" (1910), "Catastrophe" (1921), "Luck" (1921), "Nest of Dreams" (1927), "Swan's Song" (1927), "Itch Star, Deserter" (1932)), Social novels ("Ion" (1920), "Crăișorul" (1929), "Răscoala" (1932), "Gorila" (1938)), Psychological novels ("Pădurea spânzuraţilor" (1922), "Adam and Eva "(1925)," Ciuleandra "(1927)," Jar "(1934). "Apostolii" (1926)).
Before writing and publishing his novels, the writer perfected his talent as a writer by writing stories and short stories. His most famous short story is of course "Ițic Ștrul, deserter". "Ciuleandra", his best-known psychological short story, will appear a little later.
The novelist began to write realistic novels, in which the action took place in the setting of a village in Transylvania, Liviu Rebreanu brought back the peasant issue in the center of attention of the literary world, through the novel of thirst for land, Ion. Its subtitle was "The Voice of the Earth, The Voice of Love" and it announced the main conflict in the text, and gave one of our first masterpieces of psychological analysis.
After this literary experience, the author later wrote the novel Răscoala, nicknamed by G. Călinescu "novel of the crowd". It can be considered a masterpiece of the Romanian novel of all times.
A third novel, The Forest of the Hanged, was inspired by an autobiographical incident, his brother, a lieutenant in the Austro-Hungarian Army, being sentenced to death and executed for attempting to desert to the Austro-Hungarian Army front. and to pass into the trenches of the Romanians during the First World War. The theme was originally sketched in the short story Catastrophe.
The Late Novel Stage
Towards the end of his life, the prose writer wrote several novels, detective novels, or subjects related to the area of paraliterature, such as Adam and Eve, based on the theme of metempsychosis. A couple reincarnates in seven different historical moments, and the text is enclosed in a framed story.
Two other novels, "Gorilla" and "Jar", which described the intellectual environment and the editorial offices of some interwar newspapers, although they enjoyed public success, were real criticisms, and Crăișorul, a novelized biography of Horia , which had been nicknamed by the inhabitants of the Apuseni Mountains "Crăișorul munţilor", meant another great literary failure. After the Uprising, Rebreanu did not give any more masterpieces, all the novels written later being characterized by the critic G. Călinescu as unequal.
In "Both", Rebreanu tried to write a detective novel, describing a crime committed by a maid with criminal instincts. Obviously the writer knew naturalistic novels.
Liviu Rebreanu, was one of the few Romanian authors who enjoyed the success of the bookstore and had a stable financial situation, he also enjoyed public honors and recognition of its value, both from the reading public, as well as literary criticism, since his lifetime. Posthumously, this recognition would turn into a real cult, to Liviu Rebreanu, recognized as a classic of Romanian literature, maybe tens or hundreds of studies and comments were dedicated to him.
In December 1906 he began writing the suite of childhood memories (portraits from Maieru), written, at first, in Hungarian, later resumed in Romanian, unpublished prose. He began to write a Reader's Journal, with maxims, thoughts, insights from universal literature: William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Friedrich von Schiller, Tolstoy, Victor Hugo, from the Romanian creation Anton Pann, as well as notes of general culture in the languages German, Hungarian, French and Romanian - fluent in reading and writing.
He resumed old projects (plays), such as "Ghighi", and added others inspired by peasant life: "Traiul", "Osânda". He read many Romanian books, especially looking at the enrichment of vocabulary, the polishing of the literary language. He began writing a sketchbook, some of which anticipated heroes and episodes of mature prose. Many topics were developed in the early days of short stories. Dates reach the limit April 28, 1909.
He wrote the story "Codrea" ("Voice of the Heart"). In the same autumn, he finished the story "Mr. Ionica", a resumption of an older prose from the Szamárlétra cycle. With these pages he addressed several literary magazines from over the mountains (sending letters to Garabet Ibrăileanu to Romanian Life in Iași, to Mihail Dragomirescu to Critical Conversations in Bucharest, as well as from Transylvania, corresponding to Octavian Tăslăuanu from Luceafărul from Sibiu). / p>
On October 1, in Blaj, in the "Revista politică şi literară", the story "Talerii" appeared, the last one printed in Transylvania, before Rebreanu settled in the country's capital. He finished the short story "Withering", under the impetus of some Sadovian readings.