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Dolfi or Dolphi Trost was a Romanian surrealist poet, artist, and theorist, and the instigator of entopic graphomania. Together with Gherasim Luca, he was the author of Dialectique de la dialectique . He also authored a work entitled Le même du même. In 1941, Trost and Luca were among... the founders of the Bucharest group of surrealists, which also included Gellu Naum, Paul Păun, and Virgil Theodorescu.
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Geo Bogza was a Romanian avant-garde theorist, poet, and journalist, known for his left-wing and communist political convictions. As a young man in the interwar period, he was known as a rebel and was one of the most influential Romanian Surrealists. Several of his controversial poems twice led to... his imprisonment on grounds of obscenity, and saw him partake in the conflict between young and old Romanian writers, as well as in the confrontation between the avant-garde and the far right. At a later stage, Bogza won acclaim for his many and accomplished reportage pieces, being one of the first to cultivate the genre in Romanian literature, and using it as a venue for social criticism. After the establishment of Communist Romania, Bogza adapted his style to Socialist realism, and became one of the most important literary figures to have serviced the government. With time, he became a subtle critic of the regime, especially under the rule of Nicolae Ceauşescu, when he adopted a dissident position.
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Saşa Pană was a Romanian avant-garde poet, novelist, and short story writer. Born to a Jewish family in Bucharest, he trained as a physician in Iaşi and Bucharest, becoming a qualified combat medic in 1927. He was more interested in a literary career, which he had begun in 1925,... after publishing several Symbolism-inspired poems under the title Răbojul unui muritor . He was to be more attracted to Dada themes, moving on to Surrealism soon after. Pană financed and edited the 1928 avant-garde magazine named unu . The magazine was the basis for a publishing house of the same name, which Pană used for printing works by the likes of Urmuz, Tristan Tzara, Stephan Roll, Ilarie Voronca, as well as his own. His prose took the form of very short pieces that merged the short story form with poem, reportage, and manifesto. He adapted André Breton's pure psychic automatism technique to his own creations - Diagrame , Echinox orbitor , Viaţa romanţată a lui Dumnezeu .
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Gellu Naum was a prominent Romanian poet, dramatist, novelist, children's writer, and translator. He is remembered as the founder of the Romanian Surrealist group. The artist Lyggia Naum, his wife, was the inspiration and main character in his 1985 novel Zenobia. Born in Bucharest, he was the son... of the poet Andrei Naum and his wife Maria. In 1933, he began studying Philosophy at the University of Bucharest. In 1938, he left for France, where he continued his studies at the University of Paris. He took his PhD diploma with a thesis on the scholastic philosopher Pierre Abelard. In 1936 , Naum met Victor Brauner, who became his close friend and who later introduced him to André Breton and his Surrealist circle in Paris. In 1941, he helped create the Bucharest group of Surrealists . Naum was drafted into Romanian Army during World War II and served on the Eastern Front after the invasion of the Soviet Union .
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Dolfi or Dolphi Trost was a Romanian surrealist poet, artist, and theorist, and the instigator of entopic graphomania. Together with Gherasim Luca,... he was the author of Dialectique de la dialectique . He also authored a work entitled Le même du même. In 1941, Trost and Luca were among the founders of the Bucharest group of surrealists, which also included Gellu Naum, Paul Păun, and Virgil Theodorescu.
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Gellu Naum was a prominent Romanian poet, dramatist, novelist, children's writer, and translator. He is remembered as the founder of the Romanian... Surrealist group. The artist Lyggia Naum, his wife, was the inspiration and main character in his 1985 novel Zenobia. Born in Bucharest, he was the son of the poet Andrei Naum and his wife Maria. In 1933, he began studying Philosophy at the University of Bucharest. In 1938, he left for France, where he continued his studies at the University of Paris. He took his PhD diploma with a thesis on the scholastic philosopher Pierre Abelard. In 1936 , Naum met Victor Brauner, who became his close friend and who later introduced him to André Breton and his Surrealist circle in Paris. In 1941, he helped create the Bucharest group of Surrealists . Naum was drafted into Romanian Army during World War II and served on the Eastern Front after the invasion of the Soviet Union .
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