PENTRU O ISTORIE A P.E.N. CLUB-ULUI ROMÂN

The article aims at presenting new facts and information regarding the beginnings of the Romanian P.E.N. Club in the early 1920s. It is a sequel of a an already published first chapter, which had focused on the personality of Marcu Beza, the Romanian diplomat of Aromanian origin who at the time was a consul in London and a Lecturer at King’s College. He was also the initiator and founder of the Romanian branch of P.E.N. Club International. The present paper corroborates data from articles, books and letters by him and/or by major Romanian men of letters, such as Emanoil Bucuţa, Nicolae Iorga and Vasile Pârvan. They might have not been great writers, however they played both intriguing and significant roles in the process of integrating writers from our country in the international literary circuit. The events referred to in the article and the way these outstanding figures related to them pertain to the socialization component of P.E.N. gatherings. The political dimension is hinted as well in our effort to read beyond the lines of the documents offered to Romanian readers for the very first time, thanks to support given by our collaborators from abroad.