275. The complete collection of the magazine "Viața Românească" ("Romanian Life"), Iași, 1906-1938, from the collection of Professor Ion Agrigoroaiei, from the University of Iași.

The literary magazine "Viața Românească" ("Romanian Life"), one of the most important and long-lived literary magazines in Romania, was founded in the autumn of 1906 by Constantin Stere, the ideologist and leader of the publication, and Garabet Ibrăileanu, the editor-in-chief. In the first number, Stere launched the manifesto of the traditionally inspired Poporanism, which, together with Semănătorism, completed the traditionalist and anti-modernist currents in Romanian literature, culture and ideological debate. The magazine rivalled in size another important publication very quickly, "Convorbiri Literare" ("Literary Conversations"), the journal of Junimea, a major publication in the cultural life of the country and in the debate of ideas. The arguments from the pages of the magazine caused real polemics, such as those with Nicolae Iorga or Titu Maiorescu. The present collection of the magazine offers us both a panorama of Romanian literature over a period of almost four decades and a fresco of cultural life and the confrontations of ideas of the time. The copies are bound in vintage bindings, some exquisite.

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