Benjamin Fondane
Playwright, Author
1898 – 1944
Who was Benjamin Fondane?
Benjamin Fondane or Benjamin Fundoianu was a Romanian and French poet, critic and existentialist philosopher, also noted for his work in film and theater. Known from his Romanian youth as a Symbolist poet and columnist, he alternated Neoromantic and Expressionist themes with echoes from Tudor Arghezi, and dedicated several poetic cycles to the rural life of his native Moldavia. Fondane, who was of Jewish Romanian extraction and a nephew of Jewish intellectuals Elias and Moses Schwartzfeld, participated in both minority secular Jewish culture and mainstream Romanian culture. During and after World War I, he was active as a cultural critic, avant-garde promoter and, with his brother-in-law Armand Pascal, manager of the theatrical troupe Insula.
Fondane began a second career in 1923, when he moved to Paris. Affiliated with Surrealism, but strongly opposed to its communist leanings, he moved on to become a figure in Jewish existentialism and a leading disciple of Lev Shestov.
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- Born
- Nov 14, 1898
Iași - Also known as
- Фондан, Бенжамен
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- Romania
- France
- Profession
- Education
- Alexandru Ioan Cuza University
- Lived in
- Iași
- Died
- Oct 3, 1944
Auschwitz concentration camp
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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