 It was his mathematics teacher Ion Barbu, also a poet, who nurtured this interest.When the latter, whose class was poor at its subject, heard the boys were publishing the literary magazine "Vlǎstarul", he began spending his classes talking to them about Edgar Allan Poe, Stéphane Mallarmé, Comte de Lautréamont, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Valéry and other writers.A number of Brezianu's classmates became prominent in the literary field, "Vlǎstarul" was edited by Mircea Eliade, two years his senior, and received contributions from Eugène Ionesco, who attended another school.