sentences:  He and other commentators assess that Negoiţescu's self-avowed love for literature and books as objects was almost physical in nature.A substantial and precocious element of Negoiţescu's critical work was constituted by his focus on Mateiu Caragiale.Bogdan Creţu, who notes the enthusiastic reception Negoiţescu granted to Caragiale's poetic work in his very first published essay, believes there is an intrinsic connection between the two figures at the level of aestheticism.