The Romanian language in historical, literary and linguistic context in the 20th century, until 1989

After the peace treaties of Saint-Germain and Trianon (1919, 1920), Romania was able to significantly increase its borders as compared to the pre-war period, becaming „Great Romania”, which inspired writers, such as Liviu Rebreanu, Camil Petrescu or Cezar Petrescu, to an artistic and literary movement, emphasizing national identity. Lucian Blaga triggered a philosophical-poetic current. Mihail Sadoveanu should not be forgotten either. Tristian Tzara proclaimed „Dadaism”, which also influenced the French avant-garde. Iorgu Iordan, the grammarian, attem¬pted to align the innovations of Romanian by imposing the culture of the language on grammarians, which resulted in a sort of mythical language of the socialist society, a „wooden language” (Zafiu 2009) .