מרסל בלכר

Marcel Blecher (1909-1938), author, born in Botosani, Romania, but lived most of his life in Roman, Romania. He suffered from tuberculosis and was bedridden for the last ten years of his short life. His writing shows an obsession with death. Blecher wrote for various periodicals and his first book of poems appeared in 1934. His first novel was one of the pioneer surrealist works in Romanian literature. Many Jewish themes appear in his writings reflecting a middle-class Jewish family life. He wrote an autobiographical novel in a sanatorium in France where he was encased in a plaster cast. At the suggestion of Andre Gide, he began to translate it into French, but died before this was completed.

His works include Corp transparent (1934); Intamplari in irealitatea imediata (1936); Inimi cicatrizate (1937); Vizuina luminata (1971).