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About Dinu Pillat
- Dinu Pillat (born Constantin I.
- Pillat; November 19, 1921–December 5, 1975) was a Romanian literary critic and prose writer. Born in Bucharest, his parents were poet Ion Pillat and his wife Maria (née Procopie Dumitrescu), a painter known professionally as Maria Pillat-Brate?.
- After attending Spiru Haret High School in his native city from 1932 to 1940, he enrolled in the literature and philosophy faculty of Bucharest University.
- He studied there from 1940 to 1944, specializing in modern philology.
- He obtained a doctorate in 1947, with a thesis on the sensation novel in Romanian literature during the latter half of the 19th century; his adviser was George Calinescu.
- However, the title of doctor was not conferred until 1968.
- In 1957, he became a researcher at the Literary History and Folklore Institute, which took on the name of the recently deceased Calinescu in 1965.
- His time there was interrupted in March 1959, when he was arrested and ensnared in a plot concocted by the communist regime's Securitate secret police.
- Together with Constantin Noica, he was charged with leading a conspiracy to distribute anti-regime propaganda.
- In reality, the alleged conspirators did not know one another, and the Romanian Communist Party wished to deliver a lesson to rising intellectuals.
- Sentenced to 25 years at hard labor and 15 years' imprisonment for treason, he was held at Jilava and Gherla prisons, where he suffered recurring bouts of tuberculosis.
- He was amnestied in 1964.Pillat's first published work appeared in Universul literar in 1938.
- His first novel, the 1943 Tinere?e ciudata, dealt with the love life and intellectual passions of high schoolers and university students.
- Moartea cotidiana (1946) is a novel that describes the banality of the petit-bourgeois existence, written from an Existentialist perspective.
- He resumed publishing in 1969, with a brief biography of Ion Barbu.
- Mozaic istorico-literar.
- Secolul XX appeared the same year.
- He edited and prefaced works by Barbu, Max Blecher and Ionel Teodoreanu.
- Pillat also published an anthology, O constela?ie a poeziei române moderne.
- This featured poems by his father and by Barbu, Tudor Arghezi, George Bacovia, Lucian Blaga, Benjamin Fondane, Adrian Maniu, Ion Vinea and Vasile Voiculescu.He and his wife Cornelia had a daughter, poet and philologist Monica Pillat.
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