Răscoala
Liviu Rebreanu
Răscoala
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In the spring of 1907, as Bucharest society dines and gossips, the villages of the Danube plain are starving on land that belongs to others. Rebreanu follows young landowner Grigore Iuga, the journalist Titu Herdelea and the peasants of Amara, led by the returning soldier Petre Petre, as rumour, hunger and hope turn into a revolt that sweeps the country — and into its bloody suppression.
About the book
Published in 1932, Răscoala (The Uprising) is Liviu Rebreanu's novel of the great Romanian peasants' revolt of 1907, in which tens of thousands rose against the landowners and leaseholders and the army put the rising down with artillery. It appeared in two volumes, Se mișcă țara! (The Country Stirs) and Focurile (The Fires). Rebreanu, who had already written the peasant's hunger for land in Ion, here makes the crowd itself the protagonist. The story moves between the salons of Bucharest and the villages around the Iuga estate, between liberal landowners, cynical politicians and peasants whose patience runs out, and it builds with the slow inevitability of a storm. Critics have counted it among the greatest Romanian novels. This edition is the original Romanian text.
About the author
Liviu Rebreanu (1885–1944) was a Romanian novelist and playwright, widely regarded as a founding figure of the modern Romanian novel. Known for his realism and psychological depth, he explored rural life, social inequality, and the conflicts between personal desire and moral responsibility. His most celebrated novels, Ion and Forest of the Hanged, remain essential works of Romanian literature.