Geo Bogza
Geo Bogza was a Romanian avantgarde theorist, poet, and journalist, known for his leftwing 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 avantgarde 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.
Geo Bogza was born in Blejoi, Prahova County. At one point during the late 1930s, Bogza was irritated after reading an article authored by one of his fascist adversaries, Alexandru Hodo . Hodo implied that Bogza was not an ethnic Romanian, which prompted the latter to elaborate on his origins and his name. Bogza refuted the allegation by indicating that his father was originally from the village of Bogzeti, in Secuieni, Neam County, and that his mother was the daughter of a Romanian Transylvanian activist who had fled from AustriaHungary to the Kingdom of Romania. The lineage was confirmed by literary critic George Clinescu as part of a short biographical essay.
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