Ion Vinea, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ion Vinea

Romanian writer

Date of Birth: 17-Apr-1895

Place of Birth: Giurgiu, Giurgiu County, Romania

Date of Death: 06-Jul-1964

Profession: writer, lawyer, poet, politician, translator, human rights activist, journalist, literary critic, trade unionist

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Ion Vinea

  • Ion Vinea (born Ioan Eugen Iovanaki, sometimes Iovanache; April 17, 1895 – July 6, 1964) was a Romanian poet, novelist, journalist, literary theorist, and political figure.
  • He became active on the modernist scene during his teens, his poetic work always indebted to the Symbolist movement, and first founded, with Tristan Tzara and Marcel Janco, the review Simbolul.
  • The more conservative Vinea drifted apart from them as they rose to international fame with the Dada artistic experiment, being instead affiliated with left-wing counterculture in World War I Romania.
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  • Cocea, Vinea edited the socialist Chemarea, but returned to the international avant-garde in 1923–1924, an affiliate of Constructivism, Futurism, and, marginally, Surrealism. Vinea achieved his reputation as the co-founder and editor or Contimporanul, Romania's major avant-garde publication throughout the 1920s, where he also published his fragmentary prose.
  • He expounded his social critique and his program of cultural renewal, fusing a modernist reinterpretation of tradition with a cosmopolitan tolerance and a constant interest in European avant-garde phenomena.
  • He drifted away from artistic experimentation and literature in general by 1930, when he began working on conventional newspapers, a vocal (but inconsistent) anti-fascist publicist, and a subject of scorn for the more radical writers at unu.
  • After a stint in the Assembly of Deputies, where he represented the National Peasants' Party, Vinea focused mainly on managing Cocea's Facla.
  • By 1940, he was an adamant anti-communist and anti-Soviet, ambiguously serving the Ion Antonescu dictatorship as editor of Evenimentul Zilei. Spending his final two decades in near-constant harassment by communist authorities, Vinea was mostly prevented from publishing his work.
  • Driven into poverty and obscurity, he acted as a ghostwriter for, then denouncer of, his novelist friend, Petru Dumitriu.
  • He held a variety of employments, making his comeback as a translator of Edgar Allan Poe and William Shakespeare.
  • He died of cancer just as his own work was again in print.
  • Vinea had by then been married four times, and had had numerous affairs; his third wife, actress-novelist Henriette Yvonne Stahl, was still redacting his unpublished novels.
  • These fictionalize episodes of his own life in the manner of decadent literature, establishing Vinea's posthumous recognition as an original raconteur.

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