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__NOTOC__ Petru Comarnescu (born November 23, 1905, Iași- d. November 27, 1970, Bucharest) was a Romanian literary and art critic and translator. Born in Iași into a family that was related to the metropolitan bishop Veniamin Costache, he studied at the University of Bucharest law (degree in 1928), philosophy and philology (degree in 1929) before going in 1931 on a two-year〔Mircea Eliade, ''Autobiography: Journey East, Journey West'', Volume 1; Volumes 1907-1937 〕 scholarship to the United States of America, where he received a PhD in aesthetics from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, with a thesis entitled ''The Nature of Beauty and Its Relation to Goodness'' (published later in Romanian in 1946 as ''Kalokagathon''〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Petre Comarnescu )〕). Together with Mircea Vulcănescu and Alexandru Christian Tell, he started the ''Criterion'' association and magazine in 1934. Before the Second World War he published in several Romanian newspapers, for example ''Adevărul'', ''Adevărul literar și artistic'', ''Azi'', ''Stânga'', ''Arta'', ''Excelsior'', ''Da și nu'', ''Ulisse'' and was an editor at ''Vremea'' (1931–1936), ''Rampa'' (1933–1934), ''Revista Fundațiilor Regale'' (from its foundation to 1943). Between 1944 and 1949 he published in ''Bis'', ''Agora'', ''Timpul'', ''Arcades'', ''Națiunea'', ''Universul''. Between 1949 and 1960 he was not allowed to publish under his own name, due to political reasons.〔 The only exceptions were monographies about painters or sculptors: ''Octav Băncilă'' (1954), Abgar Baltazar (1956), ''Viaţa şi opera lui Rembrandt van Rijn'' ("The Life And Work of Rembrandt")(1957), ''Nicolae Grigorescu'' (1959), ''Ştefan Luchian'' (1960). Later, he would also write about other well-known Romanian visual artists, such as Gheorghe Petrașcu, Theodor Pallady, Nicolae Tonitza, Francisc Șirato, Ion Țuculescu, sometimes even in English ''The Romanian and the Universal in Brâncuși's Work'' (1970). Trying to avoid being marginalized, he sometimes compromised with the Communist authorities, such as by joining the ''Partidul Muncitoresc Român'' (Romanian Workers' Party, later called ''Partidul Comunist Român''- Romanian Communist Party). Alone or in cooperation with others he translated from English or Russian: D. H. Lawrence, Daniel Defoe, Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain, Eugene O’Neill, J. B. Priestley, Howard Fast, Leo Tolstoi, Alexander Herzen, Alexander Gorchakov, Gleb Uspensky, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, Sasha Chorny, Ilya Ehrenburg. He was critically acclaimed by his contemporaries, Camil Petrescu calling him "''the leader''" of their generation, Barbu Brezianu its "''herald''", Mircea Eliade its "''magus''".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Centenar Petru Comarnescu )〕 Comarnescu was married to Gina Manolescu-Strunga, the daughter of a liberal politician, but she had been in love with N. D. Cocea, a well-known writer and journalist, from the age of 17 (and by whom she would become pregnant after her marriage)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=EVENIMENT: JURNALUL LUI PETRU COMARNESCU )〕 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Elogiu )〕 and as a result they divorced two years later.〔 He is buried at the Voroneţ Monastery cemetery. ==Memberships== * Member of the ''Romanian Writers' Association'' (Societatea Scriitorilor Români)(1945), and later of ''The Romanian Writers' Union'' (Uniunea Scriitorilor din R.S.R). * Member of the ''Fine Arts Association of Romania'' (U.A.P.), Critics section. After facing opposition by some of the members he was finally accepted, being supported by Alexandru Rosetti, Tudor Vianu, Ion Frunzetti and Vlaicu Bârna.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Petru Comarnescu」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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