After achieving national unity in 1918, Romanian literature entered what can be called a golden age, characterized by the development of the Romanian novel. Traditional society and recent political events influenced works such as Liviu Rebreanu's "Răscoala" ("The Uprising"), which, published in 1932, was inspired by the 1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt, and "Pădurea Spânzuraților" ("Forest of the Hanged"), published in 1922 and inspired by Romanian participation in World War I. The dawn of the modern novel can be seen in Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu ("Concert din muzică de Bach"—"Bach Concert"), Camil Petrescu ("Ultima noapte de dragoste, întâia noapte de război"—"The Last Night of Love, the First Night of War"). George Călinescu is another complex personality of Romanian literature: novelist, playwright, poet, literary critic and historian, essayist, journalist. He published authoritative monographs about Eminescu and Creangă, and a monumental (almost 1,000 pages in quarto) history of Romanian literature from its origin to the time of his writing (1941).