![]() ![]() 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 was a Romanian literary historian, critic, poet, novelist and memoirist, one of the leading members of the Sibiu Literary Circle. ![]()
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