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Constantin Dumitru Beldie | |
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 From left: Beldie, Nae Ionescu, Dem. Theodorescu and Spiru Hasnaș, photographed as staff members for Noua Revistă Română (1912) | |
| Born | September 8, 1887 Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania |
| Died | June 11, 1954 (aged 66) Bucharest, Communist Romania |
| Occupation | journalist, translator, civil servant, schoolteacher |
| Nationality | Romanian |
| Period | ca. 1908–1954 |
| Genre | memoir, essay, aphorism, satire |
| Literary movement | Modernism Trăirism |
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Constantin Dumitru Beldie (September 8, 1887 – June 11, 1954)[1] was a Romanian journalist, publicist, and civil servant, famous for his libertine lifestyle and his unapologetic, sarcastic, memoirs of life in the early 20th century. After modest but happy beginnings in life, Beldie played a small but essential part in the promotion of literary modernism, building bridges between the mainstream and the avant-garde. He became a pioneer of cultural journalism at Noua Revistă Română, before moving on to Ideea Europeană and ultimately Cuvântul, befriending (and secretly resenting) philosopher-journalist Nae Ionescu. Like Ionescu, he promoted a vitalistic perspective on society and culture, veering into antiintellectualism after 1918.
While working in the field of journalism and cultural criticism, Beldie advanced through the ranks of the bureaucracy, and held several important assignments between 1919 and 1935. He was the lover of female journalist Cora Irineu, and was possibly responsible for her suicide in 1924. This was only one of his many philandering affairs, some of them discussed in Beldie's own recollections of the period. These politically charged manuscripts were published, with a noted delay, in 2000.
- ^ (in Romanian) Nicolae Oprea, "Calendar", in România Literară, Issue 36/2013; "Calendar", in România Literară, Issue 23/2013