Ilarie Voronca
Illustration — Iralie Voronca Ilarie Voronca (pen name of Eduard Isidor Marcus; 31 December 1903, Brăila – 8 April 1946, Paris) was a Romanian avant-garde poet and essayist.
Ilarie Voronca

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- Full name
- Eduard Marcus.
- Born
- 1903 · Brăila.
- Died
- 1946 · Paris.
- Nationality
- France · Romania
- Occupation
- poet · writer
- Movements
- avant-garde
- Education
- Faculty of Law and University of Bucharest
- Languages
- French · Romanian
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Illustration — Iralie Voronca Ilarie Voronca (pen name of Eduard Isidor Marcus; 31 December 1903, Brăila – 8 April 1946, Paris) was a Romanian avant-garde poet and essayist.
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Life and career
Life and career
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 of George Bacovia and Camil 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 to literary magazines such as Punct and Integral. He and Stephan Roll issued a Constructivism-inspired magazine entitled 75 HP, of which only one number was ever printed. In 1925, he collaborated with Victor Brauner on "picto-poèsie" for a portrait of himself. • Illustration — A sketch by Robert Delaunay depicting Ilarie Voronca It is a cubist portrait of the Romanian poet Ilarie Voronca In 1927, Voronca published a volume of poetry in Paris. Entitled Colomba after his wife Colomba Voronca, it featured two portraits drawn by Robert 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 the French 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 by Constantin Brâncuși, Marc Chagall, or Victor Brauner. A French citizen in 1938, Voronca took part in the French Resistance during World War II. 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. Sașa Pană oversaw a Romanian edition of many of Voronca's poems in 1972.
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• Illustration — Ilarie Voronca on a 2003 Romanian stamp • The Confession of a False Soul. A novel, Snuggly Books, 2021. Translated by Sue Boswell. • The Key to Reality. A collection of short stories, Snuggly Books, 2022. Translated by Sue Boswell. • Something is Still Present and Isn't, of What's Gone. A bilingual anthology of avant-garde and avant-garde inspired Romanian poetry, Aracne editrice, 2018. Edited and translated by Victor Pambuccian.
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
Ilarie Voronca was recorded at birth as Eduard Marcus. He also worked under the name Ilarie Voronca. His recorded languages were French and Romanian.
Career and activity
Career and activity
His work is associated with avant-garde. He was employed by Radiodiffusion Française. He belonged to French Resistance and Sburătorul. He worked at France.
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Ilarie Voronca is recorded as poet and writer.
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1903
Ilarie Voronca born at Brăila.
1946
Ilarie Voronca died at Paris.
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scholarly publication
- Criza Corporalităţii În Poetica Lui Ilarie Voronca, Lucian Blaga Yearbook, 2019
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2019
- Iancu Carol, Pourquoi le poète Ilarie Voronca s’est-il suicidé ? Correspondances inédites (1939-1947), Tsafon, 2025
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2025
- Ilarie Voronca and the Romanian Literary Avant-Garde, Dada/Surrealism, 2015
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2015
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q1658333: Ilarie Voronca
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- “Ilarie Voronca”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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L’écriture de l’entre-deux: Ilarie Voronca, L’entre-deux imaginaire
Ilarie Voronca and the Romanian Literary Avant-Garde, Dada/Surrealism, 2015
Iancu Carol, Pourquoi le poète Ilarie Voronca s’est-il suicidé?
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- 1.Acte de décès à Paris , n° 1191, vue 30/31.
- 2.Christophe Dauphin, Ilarie Voronca, le poète intégral, 2011.
- 3.Literatura Româna : Littérature roumaine. Tome III : L'Entre-deux-guerres. Non Lieu. 2013. 978-2-35270-122-4.
- 4.Gherasim Luca. Oxus Éditions. 2004.
- 5.Paroles n°196 : Poésie. alliancefrancaise.org.hk via Internet Archive.
- 6.Christophe Dauphin, Ilarie Voronca, le poète intégral, 2011.
- 7.Tristan Tzara, Ilarie Voronca, Les Lettres françaises, 1949
- 8.Christophe Dauphin, 1903-2003 Ilarie Voronca, le centenaire de l’ombre, Les Hommes sans épaules , 2004)
- 9.espritsnomades.com/sitelittera….
- 10.http://web.archive.org/web/20161112080943/http://www.dechargelarevue.com/id/index.php?commentaires=300.
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