sentences:  In 1941, he published "Povestea tristă a lui Ramon Ocg" ("The Sad Story of Ramon Ocg"), a lengthy prose poem which he presented as a novel.That same year, in autumn, he traveled to the capital city of Bucharest, visiting modernist critic and theorist Eugen Lovinescu, the doyen of a literary circle known as "Sburătorul".Negoiţescu, who had just purchased himself the new critical synthesis newly published by Lovinescu's rival George Călinescu, commented on its strengths and weaknesses with his host.