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He was born in Târlișua (Hungarian: Felsőilosva) on 27. november 1885.

He was a Romanian novelist, playwright, short story writer, and journalist.

He studied at Sopron in the military school and then at the Ludovica Military Academy.

He worked as an officer in Gyula but resigned in 1908, and in 1909 illegally crossed the Southern Carpathians into Romania, and lived in Bucharest.

In 1911–1912 he was secretary for the National Theater in Craiova, where he worked under the direction of short story writer Emil Gârleanu. He got married to actress Fanny Rădulescu.

His Short stories and novellas

The Catastrophe The Fate Nest of Dreams The Swan Song Iţic Ştrul as a Deserter The forest of the hanged

The Forest of The Hanged The hero of the novel is Apostol Bologa, son of

a Romanian lawyer from Transylvania. He’s sent on the Romanian front, in the

Oriental Carphatians, the thought of desertation becomes an obsession for him. Being forced again to take part in a mility tribunal, to judge a Romanian peasant for espionage, Apostol Bologa starts in the night towards the Romanian lines, to get to his blood brothers. He is caught and hanged, in much the same way as the Czech that he had helped condemn.