Urmuz

Also known as Demetru Dem. Demetrescu-Buzău, Dimitrie Dim. Ionescu-Buzeu, Hurmuz, Ciriviș

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Born: March 17, 1883
Died: November 23, 1923
Works: 4

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Country: Romania
Active from: 1883
Active to: 1923

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Listeners: 17
Total plays: 280

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2 total works indexed

Urmuz
· 1971
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Writer <! for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] >.name: UrmuzDemetru Dem. Demetrescu-Buzău
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Writer <! for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] >.caption: Urmuz,
Writer <! for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] >.pseudonym: Ciriviș, Hurmuz
Writer <! for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] >.birth_place: Curtea de Argeș, Kingdom of Romania
Writer <! for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] >.death_place: Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania
Writer <! for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] >.occupation: writer, humorist, judge, clerk
Writer <! for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] >.nationality: Romanian
Writer <! for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] >.genre: Absurdist fiction, antinovel, aphorism, experimental literature, fable, fantasy literature, mythopoeia, nonsense verse, parody, sketch story
Writer <! for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] >.movement: Avant-gardeFuturism

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Commons category: Urmuz
date of birth: 1883-03-17
date of death: 1923-11-23
IPA transcription: urˈmuz
pseudonym: Hurmuz

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Contents

Name
Biography
Childhood
''Pahuci'' brotherhood
Dobrujan career and military life
Debut
Suicide
Urmuz's ideas and stylistic affinities
The avant-garde herald vs. the conservative
The buffoon vs. the professional writer
Kafka, Jarry and "antiliterature"
Esoteric layers
Works
Early prose
"Ismaïl and Turnavitu"
"The Funnel and Stamate"
"The Fuchsiad"
"Emil Gayk" and "Going Abroad"
Unclassified prose
"The Chroniclers"
Legacy
''Contimporanul'' circle
''unu'' and the 1930s literati
''The Drake's Head''
Communist ban and diaspora recovery
From Onirism to the ''Optzeciști''
Postmodern Urmuzianism
Notes
References
Internal links
External links

Urmuz (, pen name of Demetru Dem. Demetrescu-Buzău, also known as Hurmuz or Ciriviș, born Dimitrie Dim. Ionescu-Buzeu; March 17, 1883 – November 23, 1923) was a Romanian writer, lawyer and civil servant, who became a cult hero in Romania's avant-garde scene. His scattered work, consisting of absurdist short prose and poetry, opened a new genre in Romanian letters and humor, and captured the imagination of modernists for several generations. Urmuz's Bizarre (or Weird) Pages were largely independent of European modernism, even though some may have been triggered by Futurism; their valorization of nonsense verse, black comedy, nihilistic tendencies and exploration into the unconscious mind have repeatedly been cited as influential for the development of Dadaism and the Theatre of the Absurd. Individual pieces such as "The Funnel and Stamate", "Ismaïl and Turnavitu", "Algazy & Grummer" or "The Fuchsiad" are parody fragments, dealing with monstrous and shapeshifting creatures in mundane settings, and announcing techniques later taken up by Surrealism.

Urmuz's biography between his high school eccentricity and his public suicide remains largely mysterious, and some of the sympathetic accounts have been described as purposefully deceptive. The abstruse imagery of his work has produced a large corpus of diverging interpretations. He has notably been read as a satirist of public life in the 1910s, an unlikely conservative and nostalgic, or an emotionally distant esotericist.