Alexandru Toma, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Alexandru Toma

Romanian writer

Date of Birth: 11-Feb-1875

Place of Birth: Urziceni, Ialomița County, Romania

Date of Death: 15-Aug-1954

Profession: writer, poet, translator, children's writer, linguist

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Alexandru Toma

  • Alexandru Toma (occasionally known as A.
  • Toma, born Solomon Moscovici; February 11, 1875 – August 15, 1954) was a Romanian poet, journalist and translator, known for his communist views and his role in introducing Socialist Realism and Stalinism to Romanian literature.
  • Having debuted as a Symbolist, Toma was influenced by 19th-century writer Mihai Eminescu, an admiration which came to characterize his entire work.
  • The official poet during the early years of the Communist regime and appointed a full member of the Romanian Academy, he is considered by many commentators to have actually been a second-shelf writer, with a problematic legacy. Toma was, alongside novelist Mihail Sadoveanu, one of the literary figures whose writings were associated with the early years of Communism in Romania.
  • Officials equated him with Eminescu, whose lyrical poems he would often adapt to the Socialist Realist guidelines, replacing their pessimism with an officially endorsed uplifting message.
  • His other writings included positive portrayals of Stakhanovite workers, praises of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, as well as poems for children.
  • Supported by the regime and widely publicized until shortly before his death, he fell out of favor and his work was gradually marginalized during the final years of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej's rule. He was the father of Sorin Toma, a Romanian Communist Party activist and journalist himself noted for his commitment to Socialist Realism, as well as for his officially endorsed attacks on the influential poet Tudor Arghezi.
  • Alexandru Toma's nephew, Virgiliu Moscovici-Monda, was himself a Symbolist poet.

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