MYSTIFICATION AND COMPENSATION IN TUDOR ARGHEZI’S LIFE AND WORK
MYSTIFICATION AND COMPENSATION IN TUDOR ARGHEZI’S LIFE AND WORK

Summary/Abstract: Tudor Arghezi used to say that his childhood was nothing but a „painful age” of his life. We don’t know much about his life. His biography is shrouded in mistery, the Romanian poet refusing to admit that he had Hungarian origins. Rozalia Arghezi, his mother, was born in Transilvania and lived in Bucharest, where she worked as a housekeeper. She is mentioned by the poet only in his literature, her portrait being compensatory and idealized. In many of Tudor Arghezi’s poems and novels his mother is an iconic character. Tudor Arghezi’s biography is more like a literary work because of the poet’s continuous effort to create an identity which did not remind him of his true, unpleasant past experience.

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