page_title: Gellu Naum
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Gellu Naum / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Romanian avant-garde writers
context_page_description: Gellu Naum was a prominent Romanian poet, dramatist, novelist, children's writer, and translator. He is remembered as the founder of the Romanian Surrealist group. The artist Lygia Naum, his wife, was the inspiration and main character in his 1985 novel Zenobia.
context_section_description: Drumeţul incendiar ("The Incendiary Traveler"; poems, illustrated by Victor Brauner), Bucharest, 1936
  Vasco de Gama, (poem, illustrated by Jacques Hérold), Bucharest, 1940
  Culoarul somnului, ("The Corridor of Sleep"; poems, illustrated by Victor Brauner), Bucharest, 1944
  Medium (prose), Bucharest, 1945
  Critica mizeriei ("Critique of Misery"; manifesto, co-written with Paul Păun and Virgil Teodorescu), Bucharest, 1945
  Teribilul interzis ("The Terrible Forbidden"; drama, illustrated by Paul Păun), Bucharest, 1945
  Spectrul longevităţii: 122 de cadavre ("The Specter of Longevity: 122 corpses"; drama, co-written with Virgil Teodorescu), Bucharest, 1946
  Castelul Orbilor ("Castle of the Blind"; drama), Bucharest, 1946
  L'infra-noir ("Infra-Black"; manifesto, co-written with Gherasim Luca, Paul Păun, Virgil Teodorescu, and Dolfi Trost), Bucharest, 1947
  Éloge de Malombra – Cerne de l'amour absolu ("Malombra's Eulogy – Black Circle of Absolute Love"; manifesto, co-written with Gherasim Luca, Paul Păun, and Dolfi Trost), Bucharest, 1947
  Filonul, Bucharest, 1952 ("The Vein"; prose)
  Tabăra din munţi, Bucharest, 1953 ("The Camp in the Mountains"; prose)
  Aşa-i Sanda, Bucharest, 1956 ("So Is Sanda"; poems for children)
  Cartea cu Apolodor, Bucharest, 1959 ("The Book With Apolodor"; poems for children, illustrated by Jules Perahim)
  Poem despre tinereţea noastră, Bucharest, 1960 ("Poem About Our Youth"; poems, illustrated by Jules Perahim)
  Soarele calm, Bucharest, 1961 ("The Calm Sun"; poems, illustrated by Jules Perahim)
  A doua carte cu Apolodor, Bucharest, 1964 ("The Second Book With Apolodor"; poems for children, illustrated by Jules Perahim)
  Athanor (poems), Bucharest, 1968
  Poetizaţi, poetizaţi... ("Poeticize, Poeticize..."; prose), Bucharest, 1970
  Copacul-animal ("The Animal-Tree"; poems), Bucharest, 1971
  Tatăl meu obosit ("My Tired Father"; poems), Bucharest, 1972
  Poeme alese ("Selected Poems"; poems), Bucharest, 1974
  Cărţile cu Apolodor ("The Apolodor Books", poems for children), Bucharest, 1975
  Descrierea turnului ("Description of the Tower"; poems), Bucharest, 1975
  Insula. Ceasornicăria Taus. Poate Eleonora ("The Island. The Taus Clockmakers. Eleonora, Perhaps"; drama), Bucharest, 1979
  Partea cealaltă ("The Other Side"; poems), Bucharest, 1980
  Zenobia (novel), Bucharest, 1985
  Amedeu, cel mai cumsecade leu, Bucharest, 1988 ("Amedeu, The Most Honest Lion"; poems for children, illustrated by N. Nobilescu)
  Apolodor, un mic pinguin călător, Bucharest, 1988 ("Apolodor, A Small Travelling Penguin"; poems for children, illustrated by N. Nobilescu)
  Malul albastru ("The Blue Shore; prose), Bucharest, 1990 
  Faţa şi suprafaţa, urmat de Malul albastru ("Face and Surface, followed by The Blue Shore", poems), Bucharest, 1994
  Focul negru ("Black Fire"; poems), Bucharest, 1995
  Sora fântână ("Sister Fountain"; poems), Bucharest, 1995
  Întrebătorul ("The Inquirer"; prose), Bucharest, 1996
  Copacul-animal, urmat de Avantajul vertebrelor ("The Animal-Tree, followed by The Advantage of Vertebrae"), Cluj-Napoca, 2000
  Ascet la baraca de tir ("Recluse in the Firing Range Shack"; poems), Bucharest, 2000
  Calea şearpelui ("The Way of the Snake"), Bucharest, 2002 (posthumous)
caption: A drawing by Naum on a 2018 stamp of Romania
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