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Aron Cotruș (Romanian pronunciation: [aˈron koˈtruʃ]; 2 January 1891 – 1 November 1961) was a Romanian poet and diplomat, member of the fascist Iron Guard.

Aron Cotruș, signed photograph
Aron Cotruș, signed photograph

Life


He was born in 1891 in Hașag, Sibiu County, at the time in Austria-Hungary. After attending secondary school in Blaj and the Andrei Șaguna High School in Brașov, he pursued his studies at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Vienna. He became affiliated with the nationalist newspapers ""Românul" from Arad and "Gazeta de Transilvania" from Brașov. He also had collaborations with the cultural magazines "Gândirea", "Vremea", "Libertatea" (Orăștie), "Iconar" (Cernăuți), and others. The critic Al. T. Stamatiad described Cotruș as young Transylvania's "most talented poet".[1]

During World War I he was in Italy, where he worked under the Romanian Legation in Rome. After the war, in 1919, he returned to Romania, becoming a journalist in Arad. A royalist, he later became a supporter of Ion Antonescu. After the death of Queen Marie of Romania he wrote the important poem "Maria Doamna" ("Lady Marie"), in which, in the words of Lucian Boia, "the queen appears as a providential figure come from faroff shores to infuse the Romanian nation with a new force."[2]

Cotruș also became a member of the Romanian Writers' Society. He worked as a press attaché in Rome and Warsaw, and during World War II as a press secretary in Madrid and Lisbon. Along with Titus Vifor and Vintilă Horia he was assigned by the Iron Guard's National Legionary State to run the Romanian Propaganda Office in Rome, "The Fellowship of the Cross" .[3]

After the collapse of the Antonescu regime in 1944 he became a political refugee in Francoist Spain. He became the president of the exiled Romanian community, then editor of the pro-Guardist magazine "Carpathians", published in Madrid. In 1957 he settled in the United States in Long Beach, California, where he lived for the rest of his life. He died in La Mirada, California on November 1, 1961. His remains are in Holy Cross Cemetery, Cleveland, under a simple stone plaque.


Literature


The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry describes him as a writer "whose messianic thunderings were couched in rolling free verse and a racy, sonorous vocabulary."[4] Along with Emil Isac, he opposed a neo-romantic and "prophetic" attitude borrowed from Octavian Goga.[5] In Cotruș's case, this took the form of an ethno-nationalist discourse about "the ethnic and social battles of the Romanians".[5]

Under the communist regime Cotruș was identified as a traitor, and as a representative of what Marxist critic Nestor Ignat called "hooliganism in literature".[6]


Publications



References


  1. (in Romanian) Ion Mierluțiu, "Un 'cvartet' modernist la Arad, în perioada interbelică" Archived March 30, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, in Revista Arca, Nr. 7-8-9/2010
  2. Lucian Boia, History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness, Central European University Press, Budapest, 2001 p.209
  3. (in Italian) Carmen Burcea, "L'immagine della Romania sulla stampa del Ventennio (II)" Archived 2018-04-21 at the Wayback Machine, in The Romanian Review of Political Sciences and International Relations, No. 2/2010, p.31
  4. Roland Greene, et al, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ., 2012, p.1206.
  5. John Neubauer, Marcel Cornis-Pope, Sándor Kibédi Varga, Nicolae Harsanyi, "Transylvania's Literary Cultures: Rivalry and Interaction", in Marcel Cornis-Pope, John Neubauer (eds.), History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe, Vol. 2, John Benjamins, Amsterdam & Philadelphia, 2004, p.264
  6. Nestor Ignat – Cu privire la valorificarea moștenirii culturale.




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