 He started publishing soon after, with "Evanghelia naturii" ("The Gospel of Nature") coming out at Iași in 1915, and "Din țara măgarilor" ("From the Country of the Donkeys") appearing in 1916.An allegorical work about a population of "donkeys" that borders the Bulgarians, it drew an angry response from Nicolae Iorga, who signed his review "someone who is not a donkey"; others praised the pamphlet for its insightful analysis of Romanian society.One scope of the work was to ridicule Romanian pretensions over Southern Dobruja, which the country had gained as a result of the Second Balkan War.