Gellu Naum: aventura suprarealistă

Without a doubt, Silviu Gongonea is the third important exegete of Gellu Naum's work, a true successor of the analytical effort of Ion Pop (cf. Gellu Naum. Poezia contra literaturii) and of the exceptional initiatives of the tireless Simona Popescu, the recoverer of the unpublished (The Snake Path) and the author of the study Salverea speciei. About surrealism and Gellu Naum (2000) as well as the book Clava. Critifiction with Gellu Naum (2004)." Eugen Negrici "Gellu Naum's work is studied, explained and valued in a complex amount of perspectives: historical, theoretical, aesthetic, comparative, hermeneutic, poetic, in an original interpretive whole, rigorously documented and finely nuanced. The monograph dedicated to Gellu Naum by Silviu Gongonea will represent, in our opinion, an important landmark in the critical bibliography not only of this author, but also of the broad issue in which is framed: European avant-garde and surrealism, Romanian avant-garde and surrealism." Mircea Tomuş "A book about Gellu Naum is welcome and justified, as it is about one of the most important representatives of surrealism and the avant-garde in our literature. Several meritorious studies have been written about Gellu Naum (...). But, about a writer of value, as many exegesis can be elaborated as possible, all the more so since Silviu Gongonea's study differs in vision and style from the previous ones." Ovidiu Ghidirmic