Ioan A. Bassarabescu

Ioan Alecu Bassarabescu was a Romanian comedic writer, civil servant and politician, who served one term in the Senate of Romania. His work, mainly in prose form, is remembered as an accomplished and noteworthy contribution to Romanian literature, capturing the dreary life of provincial clerks in the early 20th century. Not interested in producing a singular novel, like his mentor Gustave Flaubert, he concentrated instead on the sketch story genre.

One of the couples seven children, Ioan Alecu was born in Giurgiu, an ethnic Romanian baptized into the Romanian Orthodox Church. In 1877, the family left the city because of Ottoman bombardments during the Romanian War of Independence, settling in Bucharest. The eightyearold Bassarabescu was first enlisted at school in Bucharests Yellow Ward, and later in the Green Ward.

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