Marin Sorescu (1936-96) was a cheerfully melancholic comic genius, and one of the most original voices in Romanian literature. His mischievous poetry and satirical plays earned him great popularity during the Communist era. While his witty, ironic parables were not directly critical of the régime, Romanians used to a culture of double-speak could read other meanings in his playful mockery of the human condition. But later ? like a hapless character from one of his absurdist dramas ? the peasant-born people?s poet was made Minister of Culture, in Ion Iliescu?s post-Ceauçescu government. Like Miroslav Holub in Czechoslovakia, Sorescu used plain, deceptively straightforward language, believing that poetry should be ?concise, almost algebraic?. Seamus Heaney wrote that behind Sorescu?s ?throwaway charm and poker-faced subversiveness?there is a persistent solidarity with the unregarded life of...
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