The bust of Ion Creangă is made in marble by the sculptor Ion Gr. Jiga. Placed in 1960, it is one of the twelve busts in the Writers’ Round in Cișmigiu Garden.
At the inauguration of the Writers’ Round, in 1943, on the place now occupied by Ion Creangă was the bust of Octavian Goga, sculpted by Ion Jalea. After 1944, after one night it was unworthily mutilated with a hammer, the bust was removed, the plinth remaining empty until the bust of Ion Creangă was installed on it.
Who was Ion Creangă?
Ion Creangă (1837 – 1889) is one of the Great Classics of Romanian literature.
His literary work consists of stories (The mother-in-law with three daughters-in-law, The goat with three kids, The bag with two money, Danilă Prepeleac, The story of the pig, The story of Harap – Alb, The grandmother’s girl and the old man’s girl), stories (The needle and the sledgehammer, The flax and cameşa, Moș Nechifor Coțcariul) and from the autobiographical novel Childhood Memories.
A book of childhood evoked from the distant and tender-nostalgic perspective of adulthood, Creangă’s Memories represents a unique work in Romanian literature by the force with which it managed to communicate the miracle of innocent age, by the unparalleled charm of language and humor.
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