Cezar Petrescu (1892-1961) published his novel Carlton in 1946, a dramatic account of the last days of life of the residents of a luxury building in downtown Bucharest, on an autumn night in 1940, which was destroyed by a catastrophic earthquake. The work, that belongs to the cycle "The capital that kills", is focused on the tragic destiny of the characters, which in the author’s vision represent the whole of humanity, whose existence is at the mercy of an un- predictable fate. Not a mere recording of events, but a real psychological novel of one of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century Romanian literature.
