Real name: Benjamin WexlerBorn in Iasi, 1898. Boarding school in Iasi. Debut at 16 in O. Densusianu's The New Life magazine (1914). He reads some of his poems to Ion Minulescu during the refuge (Iasi). He establishes the Island avant-garde theatre (with Armand Pascal). He goes to Paris in 1923, where he sends his writings to the avant-garde revues. He works as a clerk at a cinematographic society in Paris. He travels to South America (1923). He returns to poetry. Philosophical essays. In France he is known as Benjamin Fondane. During the German occupation in France he is arrested by the Gestapo and killed in the gas chamber at Auschwitz in 1944. Works: Sights, poems, The National Culture Publishing House, 1930 (written until 1923), with an interesting introduction written by the author.: Ulysses, Les cahiers du journal des poetes, Paris, 1933.: Titanic, Paris, 1937 .: L'exode, La fenêtre ardente Publishing House, Paris, 1965 (an edition made by Cl. Sernet and Gaston Puel).: Poems, E.L. Publishing House, 1965 (introduction by D. Petrescu).: Peter's Pledge (short story, with an explanation about symbolism), Calling Publishing House, Iasi, 1918.: Images and Books from France, Socec Publishing House, 1922.: Rimbaud le Voyou, Denoel et Steele Publishing House, 1933.: La conscience malheureuse, Denoel et Steele, 1937.: Faux Traité d'Esthétique, Denoel et Steele, 1938.: Baudelaire et l'Expérience du Gouffre, Seghers Publishing House (a post mortem edition).
Romanian magazines that published his writings: The New Life, The Limelight, The Literary and Artistic Truth, The Flying Man, The Literary Flying Man, The Jewish World, The Humanity, The Flame, The Contemporary, The Free Word, Almost Daytime, The Calling, Integral, One, Adam, The New Romanian Magazine, etc.In France: Discontinuité, Messages, Bifur, Commerce (Paul Valéry, L. P. Fargue and Valéry Larbaud's magazine), Europe, Les Nouvelles Littéraires, Le Phare de Neuilly, Raison d'être, Cahiers de l'Etoile, 14 Rue de Dragon, Journal des Poètes, Revue Philosophique, Le Courier des Poètes (Bruxelles), especially Cahiers du Sud. Also the Sur and Sintesis newspapers in Argentina.Anthology of Contemporary Poets, by Ion Pillat and Perpessicius, Romanian Book Publishing House, volume 1, 1925. Critical references: Gala Galaction, in The Artistic and Literary Truth, 26 June 1921; E. Lovinescu, Critics, volume 7, The Time, 1933; Perpessicius, Critical mentions III, The Foundations Publishing House, 1936 ; G. Călinescu, The History of Romanian Literature, The Foundations Publishing House, 1941; O. S. Crohmălniceanu, The Literary Gazette, no.5, 1964; M. Petroveanu, Literary Studies, E.L. Publishing House, 1966.
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