Titus Hotnog – Memoirist

The prose writer and philologist Titus Hotnosg (18901957) is the author of the short prose volume Vrăbioiul alb [The White Cocksparrow] (Iași, 1936) but also of several philological studies. In 2005, the philologist Ion Nuță, accompanied in his approach by the teacher Ioan Dănilă, both of Bacău, published a collection of writings by Titus Hotnog in two volumes. The first volume, Vrăbioiul alb şi alte scrieri literare [The White Cocksparrow and other Literary Writings] includes short stories and sketches (some of which were published only in periodicals). The second volume, titled Viaţa mea (Jurnal). Scrieri lingvistice [My Life (A Journal). Linguistic Writings], includes several philological studies but also reproduces an unpublished manuscript by Titus Hotnog which presents information about the most important stages in his life. The text is serious and documents not only the author’s life but also events and people who influenced destinies and made their way into pages of history.