Urmuz
Urmuz was the pen name of a Romanian writer and civil servant (1883–1923), an early precursor of the avant-garde and absurdist literature in Romania, known for short, surreal and satirical prose.
Books
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1. The Complete Works
A startling collection of short prose pieces that shred narrative expectations through deadpan absurdity and linguistic play, presenting surreal vignettes, grotesque incidents, mock-scientific or pseudo-philosophical pronouncements, and eccentric characters whose actions undermine logic and decorum; with savage wit and inventive neologisms the work satirizes bureaucracy, rationality, and literary conventions, moving fluidly between macabre humor and anarchic nonsense to unsettle and amuse in equal measure.
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