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Haiducii
Filmul „Haiducii“ a fost considerat, datorita deosebitei sale audiente la publicul romanesc, un veritabil best-seller al cinematografiei nationale, fiind in acelasi timp cap de serie al unei suite de pelicule de inspiratie haiduceasca, cu un loc bine definit in ansamblul cinematografiei romanesti.
224 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2002
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About the author
Eugen Barbu
38 books15 followersRomanian modern novelist, short story writer, journalist, and correspondent member of the Romanian Academy.
His most famous writings are the novels Groapa (1957) and Principele (1969). Barbu's prose, in which the influence of neorealism has been noted, drew comparison to the works of Mateiu Caragiale, Tudor Arghezi, and Curzio Malaparte.
It was however, considered unequal by several critics, who took into measure Barbu's preference for archaisms, as well as his fluctuating narrative style.
Barbu also wrote several film scripts,some of which were for films starring his wife, the actress Marga Barbu (Florin Piersic's Mărgelatu series).
His most famous writings are the novels Groapa (1957) and Principele (1969). Barbu's prose, in which the influence of neorealism has been noted, drew comparison to the works of Mateiu Caragiale, Tudor Arghezi, and Curzio Malaparte.
It was however, considered unequal by several critics, who took into measure Barbu's preference for archaisms, as well as his fluctuating narrative style.
Barbu also wrote several film scripts,some of which were for films starring his wife, the actress Marga Barbu (Florin Piersic's Mărgelatu series).
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July 4, 2025
Haiducii by Eugen Barbu
5 out of 10
On the one hand, it is a negative activity to write about someone disreputable, obnoxious, loathsome, but on the other, maybe it is a necessary exorcism, and besides, there is a necessary mea culpa, somewhere…after all, yours truly has enjoyed some of the productions of this hurtful, rather abject author…
EB has been a vile creator, one that has harmed many people, in the days of the communist regime, when he was the editor, or the manager of a disgusting publication, Saptamana aka The Week – which I found somewhat interesting, amusing, in the days when I had had no idea what a cesspool it was
The Week worked as a place where this fellow and someone like Trump, Vadim, would expose and attack their enemies, labeling them as adversaries of the country, communist party, which was extremely horrid, seeing as so-called ‘enemies of the state’ would end up in jail, or even worse, executed…
Ergo, these two ‘writers’ were in fact agents of a repressive authority, acting as dulia aka attack dogs, that would howl, bark in their ugly sheet (it took some time for lousy yours truly to see that, alas) and name writers, artists that they disliked, so that the local KGB would then start interrogating and then arresting, torturing the innocent
In some cases, it was to pay old debts, Eugen Barbu has been found to have plagiarized Groapa, if that was the name, copying and pasting long passages (perhaps even chapters) but I would say that the crime of sending people to prison was much more serious than the one of signing off on work that was not his
Besides, although it had had its fans, the work of EB (let us stay mostly with his initials, the honor of writing about him is already too big, undeserved, so let us keep it to a minimum, this is the place where Mies van Der Rohe is especially spot on with his ‘less is more’) was anyway quite modest, even if we ignore the man
Sometimes, that appears justifiable, indeed, preferred, but it is in the case of major authors, those we find in Intellectuals http://realini.blogspot.com/2014/06/i... the marvel by Paul Johnson, in which we get to the dark side – often terrifying – of Leo Tolstoy, Ernest Hemingway, Henrik Ibsen, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and others, but clearly, EB is not just out of this league, but in another world
We have had the ‘chance’ to get his sister-in-law (I think this was the relationship, but it could well be someone from the family, with a different connection) as a substitute teacher of literature, at Mihai Viteazul aka Michael the Brave, and she was a rather good representative, in that she was bizarre, like Marga B
You have to be weird to get to live with this fellow, and at the very least, you could divorce him, if you see you had made a mistake and do not like the Games People Play http://realini.blogspot.com/2013/09/g... as exposed by Eric Berne, but she did not do that
Indeed, EB would have his spouse act in the movies made and based on his works, which must have been a precondition, and those fellas there were part of the Mob, the party, nomenclature were really like a gangster outfit, it was ‘not what you know, but who you know’, nepotism, incompetence, cruelty, sadism that catapulted them to the top
As highlighted at the end, I have tried and done my small share, to overthrow the tyrannical regime, I was in the building of the National Tourist Office, when the rally organized the crowds to show their adulation for the Beloved Comrade broke out and divided into two groups, one stopping at the Roman Square
I came down from the third floor, joined Laurentiu, and then joined the protesters in the Roman Square –making it into the copy of Newsweek covering the 1989 Revolution, with the link below – where we have been led by Andrei Finti, a real hero that would take no glory, indeed, he is actually forgotten for that role
It could have been Things Fall Apart http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/04/t... the labor camp or death, but it might be the main thing, achievement that I could be so proud of, insignificant as that presence could have been, it was something only a few hundred had the bravery to do
After the big festival of bullets, tens of thousands went to claim the ‘certificate of revolutionary’, which gave them property, privileges and in quite a number of cases, a fortune, something I sometimes (maybe more often recently) I regret, seeing what a disgusting the spectacle of taking the laurels became, I said No
It felt like an application to join a club of crooks and scoundrels, mini Trumps, so I have said this is not for me, only why give up on the benefits, when I was one of the very few to deserve a piece of the pie, given to the shameless liars and fools, still, the lottery winners test shows that money do not bring happiness…not necessarily
Now for a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/u... – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se
As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r...
Some favorite quotes from To The Heritage and other works
‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’
5 out of 10
On the one hand, it is a negative activity to write about someone disreputable, obnoxious, loathsome, but on the other, maybe it is a necessary exorcism, and besides, there is a necessary mea culpa, somewhere…after all, yours truly has enjoyed some of the productions of this hurtful, rather abject author…
EB has been a vile creator, one that has harmed many people, in the days of the communist regime, when he was the editor, or the manager of a disgusting publication, Saptamana aka The Week – which I found somewhat interesting, amusing, in the days when I had had no idea what a cesspool it was
The Week worked as a place where this fellow and someone like Trump, Vadim, would expose and attack their enemies, labeling them as adversaries of the country, communist party, which was extremely horrid, seeing as so-called ‘enemies of the state’ would end up in jail, or even worse, executed…
Ergo, these two ‘writers’ were in fact agents of a repressive authority, acting as dulia aka attack dogs, that would howl, bark in their ugly sheet (it took some time for lousy yours truly to see that, alas) and name writers, artists that they disliked, so that the local KGB would then start interrogating and then arresting, torturing the innocent
In some cases, it was to pay old debts, Eugen Barbu has been found to have plagiarized Groapa, if that was the name, copying and pasting long passages (perhaps even chapters) but I would say that the crime of sending people to prison was much more serious than the one of signing off on work that was not his
Besides, although it had had its fans, the work of EB (let us stay mostly with his initials, the honor of writing about him is already too big, undeserved, so let us keep it to a minimum, this is the place where Mies van Der Rohe is especially spot on with his ‘less is more’) was anyway quite modest, even if we ignore the man
Sometimes, that appears justifiable, indeed, preferred, but it is in the case of major authors, those we find in Intellectuals http://realini.blogspot.com/2014/06/i... the marvel by Paul Johnson, in which we get to the dark side – often terrifying – of Leo Tolstoy, Ernest Hemingway, Henrik Ibsen, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and others, but clearly, EB is not just out of this league, but in another world
We have had the ‘chance’ to get his sister-in-law (I think this was the relationship, but it could well be someone from the family, with a different connection) as a substitute teacher of literature, at Mihai Viteazul aka Michael the Brave, and she was a rather good representative, in that she was bizarre, like Marga B
You have to be weird to get to live with this fellow, and at the very least, you could divorce him, if you see you had made a mistake and do not like the Games People Play http://realini.blogspot.com/2013/09/g... as exposed by Eric Berne, but she did not do that
Indeed, EB would have his spouse act in the movies made and based on his works, which must have been a precondition, and those fellas there were part of the Mob, the party, nomenclature were really like a gangster outfit, it was ‘not what you know, but who you know’, nepotism, incompetence, cruelty, sadism that catapulted them to the top
As highlighted at the end, I have tried and done my small share, to overthrow the tyrannical regime, I was in the building of the National Tourist Office, when the rally organized the crowds to show their adulation for the Beloved Comrade broke out and divided into two groups, one stopping at the Roman Square
I came down from the third floor, joined Laurentiu, and then joined the protesters in the Roman Square –making it into the copy of Newsweek covering the 1989 Revolution, with the link below – where we have been led by Andrei Finti, a real hero that would take no glory, indeed, he is actually forgotten for that role
It could have been Things Fall Apart http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/04/t... the labor camp or death, but it might be the main thing, achievement that I could be so proud of, insignificant as that presence could have been, it was something only a few hundred had the bravery to do
After the big festival of bullets, tens of thousands went to claim the ‘certificate of revolutionary’, which gave them property, privileges and in quite a number of cases, a fortune, something I sometimes (maybe more often recently) I regret, seeing what a disgusting the spectacle of taking the laurels became, I said No
It felt like an application to join a club of crooks and scoundrels, mini Trumps, so I have said this is not for me, only why give up on the benefits, when I was one of the very few to deserve a piece of the pie, given to the shameless liars and fools, still, the lottery winners test shows that money do not bring happiness…not necessarily
Now for a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/u... – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se
As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r...
Some favorite quotes from To The Heritage and other works
‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’
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