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Urmuz
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Urmuz: Bizarre Pages
Regarded as one of the founders of the Romanian avant-garde, a forerunner of the Dadaists and a surrealist in nuce, as well as one of the forerunners of the literature of the absurd, Urmuz (real name Dem. Demetrescu-Buzau) was born in March 1883, in the city of Curtea de Arges in Romania, and died in November 1923 in Bucharest. Although, according to the testimony of his family, he started writing prose in 1907/1908, Urmuz left behind only eight short stories and one anecdote in verse. Despite the small oeuvre, Urmuz represented a cult writer for the avant-garde, which is why some critics claimed that there is no Urmuz oeuvre, but rather an Urmuz myth. Urmuz's characters, although they come from reality, are mechanical creatures, composed of plant and animal elements, people - objects, pushed to the edge of existence. The universe in which they "live" is located in a kind of intermediate world, neither on earth nor in heaven, neither in hell nor in heaven, in the world as an abnormal creation of heterogeneous elements, seemingly incompatible...
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