Writing in 2007, Cernat also noted a similarity between Vinea's 1930 collection of novellas, "Paradisul suspinelor" ("The Paradise of Sighs"), and Caragiale's "Craii...", defining the two books as "poetic, mannerist and fantastic", and stressing that they both portray decadent characters. Building on the observations of his older colleague Simion Mioc, Cernat commented that Vinea, Mateiu Caragiale, N. Davidescu and Adrian Maniu, all members of the same "post-Symbolist" generation, ultimately traced their inspiration to Alexandru Macedonski and his Symbolist work "Thalassa, Le Calvaire de feu". He also proposed that, less directly, Macedonski's themes and style also influenced similar prose works by Arghezi and Urmuz.