GHEORGHE CRUTZESCU Podul Mogoşoaei – Povestea unei străzi

14 ■ GHEORGHE CRUTZESCU* * *“The good book is the perfect diplomat, themost cunning strategist. Books have awakenedconsciences, they gave them impulse toward thelight, they prepared rows of people for the bigrevolutions. “Eusebiu Camilar 31 , Sagittarius books.When reading a book, one naturally asks who the author of the text is.Such preoccupation also had the readers of the book Mogoşoaia Bridge – thestory of a street, published in 1944, when the roller of the Eastern populationswas even more eminent by the arrival of the bearers of the red star, who wereonly behaviourally loyal to the old defects of the predecessors that had oftenrambled on the Romanian territories, most often once here, they forgot togo back to their homes, as they liked to live in the newly‐found ones. Thebook provided to the readers a presentation of certain events and biographiesthat had become notorious in the collective memory. Certain traditionalcomponents of the book were missing and therefore the readers had to contentthemselves with the lines of the savory presentation that challenged them tofill in the blanks by getting out in the street to see what was the situation untilthen, and when the metamorphosis totally or partly changed those places,use old drawing, photos or complementary narrative texts from older peoplewho could this way recall old memories. The book was absorbed quickly.Unfortunately, the following events contributed to the loss of many of thearchives 32 that could provide the information with which we could preciselyexpress how many copies had been printed and other details considered to bethe book’s ‘biography’. It is a fact that the interval at the end of 1943‐1944was also characterized by a difficulty in the supply of printing houses withthe necessary materials. Printing houses also confronted shortages in terms ofstaff, as many people had gone to war, and the equipments, due to the penurycaused, felt a shortage of spare parts. We supposed that all this made the titlewe are talking about to have a reduced number of copies. What happeneddue to the presence of the occupying liberators made people not to talk aboutthe author and this silence lasted for many decades.Gheorghe Gh. CRUTZESCU was born 33 in Bucharest on November 12,1890, being the son of the career military man Gheorghe and Constanţa,born Locusteanu 34 . His childhood gave him the opportunity to know manyof the places frequented by the family members, some relatives 35 having theirhouses in the street that he would conclusively evoke years later. He then