 The period also saw Aderca and other young modernists in conflict with historian Nicolae Iorga, the editor of "Cuget Clar" review and doyen of Romanian traditionalism, who branded Aderca as a purveyor of "sick" literature.At "Cuvântul Liber", he defended in effigy the classic of Romanian cosmopolitanism and literary realism, Ion Luca Caragiale, from attacks by the modern traditionalist, N. Davidescu (whom Aderca dismissed as a "sanguinary reactionary").In 1932, Aderca, together with fellow novelists Camil Petrescu and Liviu Rebreanu, took part in a public discussion (presided upon by philosopher Ion Petrovici and held inside a Lipscani cinema), tackling the international scandal sparked by D. H. Lawrence's book "Lady Chatterley's Lover", and, in more general terms, the degree of acceptance for both erotic literature and profane language.