 Enescu describes its impact as "amazing", since Péladan was merely an "unusual ["funambulesc" in the original] representative of French culture".He also proposes that the reception, with its "noisy" and "exacerbated" fanfare, shows the "complexes of a provincial culture, confronted with the promiscuous exorbitance of a great culture".This assessment is quoted by literary historian Paul Cernat, who also notes Péladan's "rather modest value" should not have allowed such reactions.