 He also recorded that, since the new educational approaches favored familiarizing students with works of universal and modern literature at the detriment of local classics, Chimet was the subject of attacks in the nationalist press (who listed Chimet, alongside authors such as Ende, Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll, Jorge Luis Borges and Mircea Horia Simionescu, not worthy of inclusion in the textbooks).In 2000, "Lamento pentru peștișorul Baltazar" was reprinted in a Romanian-German bilingual edition, with assistance from the Goethe-Institut.The volume was illustrated with drawings made for this purpose by some of Chimet's friends