sentences:  According to Ion Vianu, the "beautiful, pale and distant" Negoiţescu brought to mind Aubrey de Vere, the "morbid aristocrat" in Caragiale's novella "Remember".Negoiţescu's lifelong appreciation of Caragiale's work, specifically his claim that "Craii de Curtea-Veche" novel was a masterpiece formed around a "secret architecture", was contested by literary critic and Anglicist Mircea Mihăieş.Mihăieş described "Craii..." a sample of "pretentious kitsch", and accused his various colleagues of having artificially increased Caragiale's cultural rating.