Even after discarding Symbolism for Jewish existentialism, Fondane was an avid reader of "Poor Dionis". By 1929, he had taken the initiative of translating the story into his adoptive French, without ever managing to finish that work. Although "Cugetările" was rendered into French by both S. Pavès (1945) and Veturia Drăgănescu-Vericeanu (1974), a full French version of "Poor Dionis" was only published in 1993, as part of the "Actes Sud" collection, with Michel Wattremez as author. Several English translations were done by Sylvia Pankhurst, with a definitive version only published in 1979 by the "Romanian Review". "Poor Dionis" was the first Eminescu work to appear in Serbian, in a version done by Lepoša Pavlič (1940); a Russian translation was published at Chișinău in 1980. The entire corpus of Eminescu's prose works was rendered into Chinese by Feng Zhichen, of the Beijing Foreign Studies University. Its first edition came out in 2003.