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modernism , surrealism , '' sburătorul '' , sibiu literary circle 6 february 1993 munich Ştefan augustin doinaş , iustin panta , radu stanca damian silvestru cluj lucian johann wolfgang von goethe , eugen lovinescu blaga , george călinescu , andré gide , 200px romanian 10 august 1921 1937 -- 1993 autofiction prose poetry , satire , essay , lyric poetry , memoir , ion negoiţescu.jpg ion negoițescu
 ion negoiţescu critic , poet , novelist
ion negoițescu

ion negoiţescu -lrb- ; also known as nego ; august 10 , 1921 -- february 6 , 1993 -rrb- was a romanian literary historian , critic , poet , novelist and memoirist , one of the leading members of the sibiu literary circle .
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 .
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 .
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 .
after world war ii , negoiţescu 's anti-communism , dissident stance and sexual orientation made him an adversary of the romanian communist regime .
marginalized and censored , he spent three years as a political prisoner .
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 .
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 .
eventually , negoiţescu defected to west germany , where he became a contributor to radio free europe and various other anti-communist outlets , as well as editor of literary magazines for the romanian diaspora communities .
he died in munich .
ion negoiţescu 's review of romanian literature and contributions to literary theory generally stood in contrast to the nationalist and national communist recourse to traditionalism or anti-europeanism , and engaged it polemically by advocating the values of western culture .
his diverse work , although scattered and largely incomplete , drew critical praise for its original takes on various subjects , and primarily for its views on the posthumously published writings of national poet mihai eminescu .
in tandem , the implications of negoiţescu 's private life and the various aspects of his biography , such as his relationship to exposed securitate informant petru romoşan and the revelations of his unpublished diary , have remained topics of controversy in the years after his death .
