In 1977, he joined Paul Goma and Ion Vianu in a civil society protest against the rule of Nicolae Ceauşescu, but was pressured into retracting. Ultimately reinstated during a late 1960s episode of liberalization, he continued to speak out against political restrictions, and came to be closely monitored by the Securitate secret police. Marginalized and censored, he spent three years as a political prisoner.
He was also one of the few openly homosexual intellectuals in Romania to have come out before the 1990s-an experience which, like his political commitments, is recorded in his controversial autobiographical writings.Īfter World War II, Negoiţescu's anti-communism, dissident stance and sexual orientation made him an adversary of the Romanian communist regime.
Moving from a youthful affiliation to the fascist Iron Guard, which he later came to regret, the author became a disciple of modernist doyen Eugen Lovinescu, and, by 1943, rallied the entire Sibiu Circle to the cause of anti-fascism. A rebellious and eccentric figure, Negoiţescu began his career while still an adolescent, and made himself known as a literary ideologue of the 1940s generation. Ion Negoiţescu ( Romanian pronunciation: also known as Nego Aug– February 6, 1993) was a Romanian literary historian, critic, poet, novelist and memoirist, one of the leading members of the Sibiu Literary Circle. Modernism, Sburătorul, Sibiu Literary Circle, Surrealism Autofiction, essay, lyric poetry, memoir, prose poetry, satire
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