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Geo Bogza (Romanian pronunciation:[ˈd͡ʒe.oˈboɡza]; born Gheorghe Bogza; February 6, 1908 – September 14, 1993) 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 Ceaușescu, when he adopted a dissident position. Beginning in the late 1960s, he publicized his uncomfortable attitudes as subtext to apparently innocent articles and essays. An editor for Viața Românească and România Literară magazines, Geo Bogza was one of the leaders of the Romanian Writers' Union and a member of the Romanian Academy.
He was the older brother of Radu Tudoran, himself a known writer, whose political choices were in stark contrast with those of Geo Bogza, and made Tudoran the object of communist persecution. Bogza had lifelong contacts with some representatives of the Romanian avant-garde, among them Victor Brauner, Max Blecher, Sesto Pals, Sașa Pană, and Paul Păun, and was friends with, among others, the essayist and theologian Nicolae Steinhardt, the dissident Gheorghe Ursu, and the filmmaker Mircea Săucan.
GeoBogza (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈd͡ʒe.o ˈboɡza]; born Gheorghe Bogza; February 6, 1908 – September 14, 1993) was a Romanian avant-garde theorist, poet...
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Bogza in Blejoi, Prahova County, the younger brother of GeoBogza, and son of Alexandru Bogza [ro]. After graduating from the military high school at...
of Tristan Tzara, B. Fundoianu, Ilarie Voronca, GeoBogza, Max Blecher, Gherasim Luca, Gellu Naum, Geo Dumitrescu, Paul Celan, Ion Caraion, Nora Iuga,...
turn; as a pioneer of the reportage genre, he expanded on influences from GeoBogza and Tudor Arghezi to create a new, distinctly poetic, language of propaganda...
works of Romanian and foreign avant-garde authors alike. These include GeoBogza, Urmuz, Stephan Roll, Ilarie Voronca, Tristan Tzara, Benjamin Fondane...
as Urmuz promoters being later enhanced by such figures as Ion Vinea, GeoBogza, Lucian Boz, Sașa Pană and Eugène Ionesco. Beginning in the late 1930s...
day such as André Breton, André Gide, Martin Heidegger, Ilarie Voronca, GeoBogza, Mihail Sebastian, and Sașa Pană. In 1934 he published Corp transparent...
flanked by two Securitate officers. Dinescu got support from seven writers (GeoBogza, Ștefan Augustin Doinaș, Dan Hăulică, Octavian Paler, Andrei Pleșu, Alexandru...
It is composed of three villages: Blejoi, Ploieștiori, and Țânțăreni. GeoBogza (1908–1993), avant-garde theorist, poet, and journalist Constantin Dimitrescu...
Gheorghe Pintilie (1948), Corneliu Baba, Alexandru Bârlădeanu, Mihai Beniuc, GeoBogza, George Călinescu, Elie Carafoli, Alexandru Ciucurencu, Nicolae Corneanu...
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commented that the Romanian reportage had been granted a "solemn funeral" by GeoBogza in 1945, since every other such work published since had been copying...
(poet) (1908–1977), poet and pianist who was immortalised in the work of GeoBogza This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name...
homosexual. 1933 – Writer GeoBogza is imprisoned for a short time in Văcărești penitentiary for indecent behavior. Bogza just published the volume of...
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and former communist GeoBogza scribbled in the snow set on the director's car the words: "Long live Pintilie! The humble GeoBogza." In May 1970, the Cannes...
GeoBogza, used subtle imagery or allegories within their works to criticize regimes. This did not prevent state scrutiny, as with the case of Bogza coming...
accusations were aimed at other cultural figures, including Tudor Arghezi and GeoBogza. Assessments of Eliade's work were in sharp contrast to one another: also...
year as Pană's volume. Also in 1973, the former Surrealist campaigner GeoBogza dedicated Fondane an eponymous prose poem, centered on an existential...
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