- Ilarie Voronca
Ilarie Voronca (
pen name of Eduard Marcus;December 31 1903 ,Brăila —April 8 1946 ,Paris ) was aRomania n-Frenchavant-garde poet and essayist.Voronca was of Jewish ethnicity. In his early years, he was connected with
Eugen Lovinescu 's "Sburătorul " group, making his debut in 1922 in the "Sburătorul literar" (symbolist pieces inspired by the works ofGeorge Bacovia andCamil Baltazar ). Voronca's poems of the period, gloomy and passive in tone, are in marked contrast to his later works.Only a year later, Voronca adopted a change in style, adhering to the modernist
manifesto published in "Contimporanul " and contributing toliterary magazine s such as "Punct" and "Integral". He andStephan Roll issued a Constructivism-inspired magazine entitled "75 HP", of which only one number was ever printed.In 1927, Voronca published a volume of poetry in Paris. Entitled "Colomba" after his wife
Colomba Voronca , it featured two portraits drawn byRobert Delaunay . "Colomba" marked Voronca's new change in style: he had become a surrealist. Soon after that, his creations gained a regularity, and he was published frequently — especially after he settled in France (1933) and began writing in theFrench language . There followed: "L'Apprenti fantôme" ("The Apprentice Ghost"; 1938), "Beauté de ce monde" ("This World's Beauty"; 1940), "Arbre" ("Tree"; 1942). Several of his works were illustrated with drawings byConstantin Brancusi ,Marc Chagall , orVictor Brauner .A French citizen in 1938, Voronca took part in the
French Resistance . He visited Romania in January 1946, and was acclaimed for his writings and Anti-fascist activities. He never finished his "Manuel du parfait bonheur" ("Manual for Perfect Happiness"), committing suicide later in the same year.An edition of selected poems was published in France in 1956; it was followed ten years later by prints of never-published works.
Saşa Pană oversaw a Romanian edition of many of Voronca's poems in 1972.External links
* [http://www.corpse.org/issue_2/burning_bush/voronca.html "Act of Presence"] by Ilarie Voronca, in "Exquisite Corpse"
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