Between the press and literature, Tudor Teodorescu-Branişte6.0101

One out of the five brothers puts his mark on journalism. Tudor Teodorescu-Braniste was born on April 12, 1899, in Pitesti. As a student, publishes his first short stories, literary sketches and chronicles under the pseudonym Andrew Braniste. He was editor of the major newspapers of the time. In the Antonescian dictatorship, he refuses to work in media and focuses exclusively on literary creation. On March 23, 1969, Braniste dies leaving on the working table, unfinished, the volume of memories “ladder of life”, which appeared after his death.

“It is often said that newspaper’s article does not live only one day, the occurrence day. I think it is a mistake. Are also articles about small facts, which quickly lose the interest. The real publicist, however, attacks the major life themes and by debating them with competence, courage and talent makes them surviving era writings. “These are TT Braniste’s thoughts preparing to wrap up his prodigious work of over fifty years in the media, aware that he leaves behind a work worthy of the great publishing library.

Finally, we will try to take a quick overview of Braniste’s journalism as an invitation to the world full of characters’, events’ and ideas’ turmoil, which it is still far to have lost the public interest.

In fact, Braniste was simply linking over time the opinions expressed years ago, looking to approach two genre, considered sometimes different: the press and the literature. For him, the common characteristics of the two categories of knight of the pen were decisive: “The letters’ people and the journalists have the same target: the awakening of the rare sparks in others hearts. I am leavening the same material: the verb, the divine verb, which with such passion Caragiale highly was speaking.”

The passion for journalism was born when he was young, because he was getting the gallery where the writer can sit and talk directly to the reader, sharing his daily concerns in light of his own creed.

With admiration and gratitude for the forerunners contribution to the rising of the Romanian writing media prestige, Braniste recalled:

“Oh! What would had been the significance of the Romanian culture if a Caragiale had not been published his “Momente” in a newspaper; if Vlahuţă had not been published his popular articles in the columns of newspapers; if Delavrancea, Eminescu, Panu and everyone else had not been journalists?”

Throughout his journalistic activity, Braniste felt animated by one faith, not appeasement or retreated, proudly confirming: “I always wrote what I thought. Good or bad, I always nested my faith on paper. And when somewhere I could not write what I was thinking I got my hat and, without offense, I left.”

He wrote pamphlets attacking or ridiculing morals or unjust state of affairs, sometimes with irony, sometimes with incision, and when appropriate, finding the relentless phrase, but always stopping before vulgar details.

He chose the particular loud tone and clear explanation in the article’s comments, when considered the situation serious and sometimes the gravity of the problem under discussion. It has not hidden his lyricism when he wrote impressions or memories about people, happenings and books dear to his heart.

The title under which these items are bundled has been offered with love by one of the greatest journalists of the time. The title suggests a reality which should be taken into consideration by any exegesis of the illustrious scribe. The journalist was doubled throughout his business, by the personality of a talented writer, showing us today obvious loans, profitable to the work between the two addressed genres. Thus, in the pamphlet’s incisiveness, the invention of some anecdotes, friendly atmosphere and some pathetic tone, the journalist is doubled by literate’s talent.