Miron Radu Paraschivescu

Miron Radu Paraschivescu
Born (1911-10-02)October 2, 1911
Zimnicea, Teleorman County, Romania
Died February 17, 1971(1971-02-17) (aged 59)
Bucharest, Romania
Pen name MRP
Language Romanian
Nationality  Romania
Citizenship Romania
Education Department of Letters and Philosophy
Alma mater University of Bucharest
Period 1929-1971
Notable works Cântice ţigăneşti
Notable awards The Romanian Academy's "George Coșbuc" Award (1956)

Miron Radu Paraschivescu (October 2, 1911– February 17, 1971) was a Romanian poet, essayist, journalist, and translator.

Born in Zimnicea, Teleorman County, he went to high school in Ploiești, after which he studied fine arts, first in Cluj and later in Bucharest without graduating. He enrolled then at the Letters and Philosophy Department of the University of Bucharest.

A leftist in his youth (he joined the Union of Communist Youth in 1933),[1] he wrote for many leftist papers and magazines of those days: "Cuvîntul liber", "Azi", "Facla", "Viața românească", "Era nouă", "Lumea românească", "Timpul", "Ecoul", "România liberă", "Scînteia", sometimes under a pen name, among them Emil Soare and Paul Scorțeanu. After World War II, he wrote many propagandistic articles although it seems that he never became a member of the Communist Party.[1]

Being on friendly terms with many communist leaders from their days in the underground, like Gogu Rădulescu, Miron Constantinescu, Constanţa Crăciun, Iosif Chişinevschi, Leonte Răutu, he was considered "invulnerable", and got away with criticizing the regime, mostly in private, when anybody else would have ended in prison for the same offence.[2] Although he hoped, due to his antifascist past, to be given important government positions like his former comrades, he never got any, being sent instead to work for several magazines and papers.[1][2]

He and Sorin Toma bitterly criticized Tudor Arghezi in 1948, accusing him of being a representative of "decadent, bourgois art".[3][4][5]

In 1965, Paraschivescu took charge of the readers' column at the literary magazine Ramuri in Craiova, changing it in May 1966 into a four-page literary supplement called Povesta vorbei ("The Tale of Talk"). It lasted only six numbers.[6] He transformed it into a meeting place for a number of young avantgarde writers who had difficulty getting published by the established literary press.[6] Among them were: Leonid Dimov, Virgil Mazilescu, Dumitru Țepeneag, Iulian Neacșu and Sanziana Pop.

Known for being sometimes a "difficult person" and a "big mouth",[2] Paraschivescu was hospitalized at least twice in mental institutions.[1][7]

Somewhat of a Don Juan, Paraschivescu was married five times.[8]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Un cobai al ideologizării: Miron Radu Paraschivescu (I)" (in Romanian). Observator cultural. October 21, 2011. Retrieved January 4, 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 "Miron Radu Paraschivescu Arhivele Sfera Politicii". Retrieved January 4, 2014.
  3. "Cu sinceritate despre Arghezi:"Domnu’ Dej, vreau nişte cegă!"" (in Romanian). jurnalul.ro. Retrieved January 4, 2014.
  4. "Confesiunile lui Sorin Toma, redactor-şef la cel mai mare ziar al României, în cea mai întunecată epocă a presei" (in Romanian). adevarul.ro. Retrieved January 2014.
  5. "Traiectoria lui Arghezi" (in Romanian). Observator cultural. Retrieved January 4, 2014.
  6. 1 2 Deletant, Dennis (1995). Ceausescu and the Securitate,- Dissent and Coercion in Romania1965-1985. C. Hurst & Co. Ltd. pp. 175, 176.
  7. Dobre, Ana (Nr. 5-6, anul XVIII, 2008). "Miron Radu Paraschivescu – portret sub lupe infidele" (in Romanian). Retrieved January 5, 2014. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  8. "Miron Radu Paraschivescu – Iubiri și erotism" (PDF) (in Romanian). pro-saeculum.ro. no. 7/2008. Retrieved January 5, 2014. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  9. "Cetateni de onoare" (in Romanian). Retrieved January 6, 2014.
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