Dintr-un portret de grup cu marele război. Poetul Avram Steuerman-Rodion
From a Group Portrait of the Great War: The Poet Avram Steuerman-Rodion

Summary/Abstract: This paper is a part of a larger research dedicated to the Romanian poetry of the Two World Wars, which separates different authorial postures, from the writer who becomes combatant to the combatant who becomes a writer. The study aims to recover the war poetry written by Avram Steuerman-Rodion (1872-1918), a Jewish Romanian writer who was recruited in the Word War I as a military doctor and awarded for his bravery, but who will choose to commit suicide after demobilization. The critical interrogation aims to trace the specificity of the poetic formula existing in author’s front sonnets, published posthumously in the volume – a rarity today – Frontul roșu [Red Front] (1920), questioning simultaneously the preference for the order of the sonnet in times of disorder and chaos. Along with this exercise to recover the author and his work, the paper is interested in a tragic biographical paradox – which makes the trauma of readjustment to the rhythm of civil society outweigh that of adapting to the horrors of the front – with echoes in literary creation.

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