Lecca had quarrels with critic Mihail Dragomirescu, who maintained that he was a nonentity (although he conceded that Lecca wrote good dialogue).Florea, p. 958. See also Dragomirescu, pp. 54–56 His staunchest defenders include Apostolescu, who analyzed Lecca in studies of comparative literature,Lovinescu (1926), pp. 201–202 and dramatist Victor Anestin, who proclaimed (controversially so) that Lecca stood above Ion Luca Caragiale.Florea, pp. 958, 959 In 1902, the Symbolist doyen Alexandru Macedonski reported that Caragiale saw his cousin as culturally irrelevant, deeming his plays as "attempts, but not literature."Adrian Marino, Alexandru Macedonski, "Pietre de Vad. Idei literare macedonskiene", in Manuscriptum, Vol. VI, Issue 4, 1975, p. 41 According to Florea: "A strange figure, interesting for its epoch, regarded as an arbiter of elegance, 'the man of extremities and extremes', [...] Haralamb Lecca [was] either indignantly repelled or eulogized, with sympathies and antipathies bearing the same seal of disproportionate partiality."
