%0 Journal Article %T Depoetize the Universe. Manifestoes of Romanian Surrealism %A Kornhauser, Jakub %J Romanica Cracoviensia %V Tom 15 (2015) %R 10.4467/20843917RC.15.021.4288 %N Volume 15, Issue 4 %P 279-287 %K Surrealism, manifesto, avant-garde, modernism %@ 1732-8705 %D 2015 %U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/romanica-cracoviensia/article/depoetize-the-universe-manifestoes-of-romanian-surrealism %X The main aim of my article is to investigate, or simply to highlight the evolution of the twofold character of Surrealism-influenced, and later Surrealist, manifestos in three consecutive stages of the avant-garde movement in Romania. I apply the notion of the avant-garde manifesto developped by Benedikt Hjartarson in his essay “Myths of Rupture. The Manifesto and the Concept of Avant-Garde”, with the aim of taking a closer look at the anti-Surrealist Romanian manifestos of the mid-twenties, pre-Surrealist texts of the thirties, and the proper phase of the newly-established Romanian Surrealist Group’s discoveries in the forties.