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, and translated, amongst others, works by

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Books

Poems

*''Povestire cu fantome'', 1968 *''Spectacolul de pantomimă'', 1971 *''Ovăzul sălbatic'', 1974

Novel

*''Întoarcerea lui Ulise'', 1982

Essays

*''Între relativ şi absolut'', 1979 *''Itinerarii'', 1987

Fine arts albums

*''Ion Gheorghiu'', 1966 *''Florin Pucă'', 1974 *''Rousseau le Douanier'', 1975 *''

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-capricii'', 1974 *''

Toulouse-Lautrec Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the la ...

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References

*Aurel Sasu, ''Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române (M-Z)'', Paralela 45, 2006 *Dana Dumitriu, in ''România literară'', nr. 44, 1974 *Valeriu Cristea, in ''România literară'', nr. 6, 1976 *Mircea Iorgulescu, ''România literară'', nr. 42, 1979 *Mircea Ivănescu, in ''Transilvania'', nr. 9, 1982 *Mihai Ungheanu, in ''Luceafărul'', nr. 39, 1982 1929 births 1988 deaths Romanian male poets Writers from Chernivtsi 20th-century Romanian poets 20th-century Romanian male writers {{Romania-bio-stub