sentences:  Although incomplete, the book opened various new paths in critical commentary.It investigated the early history of Romania's erotic literature, and included a hypothesis that the erotic poems of Costache Conachi imitated "Ode à Priape", a work by the Frenchman Alexis Piron.The postscript "Scriitori contemporani" was designed to complete his global analysis of Romanian literature, and gave ample coverage to the Romanian diaspora authors (although, critic Mihaela Albu notes, it failed to include authors from the regions of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina).