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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ion Negoiţescu, Şerban Cioculescu, Perpessicius, Mircea Nedelciu, V. A. Urechia. Excerpt: Ion Negoi escu (Romanian pronunciation: ; also known as Nego ; August 10, 1921 February 6, 1993) was a Romanian literary historian, critic, poet, novelist and memoirist , one of the leading members of the Sibiu Literary Circle . A rebellious and eccentric figure, Negoi escu began his career while still an adolescent, and made himself known as a literary ideologue of the 1940s generation. Moving from a youthful affiliation to the fascist Iron Guard , which he later came to regret, the author became a disciple of modernist doyen Eugen Lovinescu , and, by 1943, rallied the entire Sibiu Circle to the cause of anti-fascism . He was also one of the few openly homosexual intellectuals in Romania to have come out before the 1990s an experience which, like his political commitments, is recorded in his controversial autobiographical writings. After World War II , Negoi escu's anti-communism , dissident stance and sexual orientation made him an adversary of the Romanian communist regime . Marginalized and censored , he spent three years as a political prisoner . Ultimately reinstated during a late 1960s episode of liberalization , he continued to speak out against political restrictions, and came to be closely monitored by the Securitate secret police . In 1977, he joined Paul Goma and Ion Vianu in a civil society protest against the rule of Nicolae Ceau escu , but was pressured into retracting. Eventually, Negoi escu defected to West Germany , where he became a contributor to Radio Free Europe and various other anti-communist outlets, as well as editor of literary magazines for the Romanian diaspora communities. He died in Munich . Ion Negoi escu's review of Romanian literature and contributions to ...