Max Blecher (1909-1938) was a Jewish Romanian writer and poet.
He was diagnosed with spinal tuberculosis at the age of nineteen and
spent the remaining ten years of his life bedridden and practically immobile.
In spite of his illness, he continued to write, and during his
lifetime published a volume of poetry and two novels,
along with a number of short prose pieces, articles and translations.
Another major work, Vizuina luminata: Jurnal de sanatoriu
(The Lighted Burrow: Sanatorium Journal),
was published posthumously. His works received much critical acclaim when
they first appeared but fell into relative obscurity during Romania's
communist period.
Since the fall of the communist regime in 1989, Blecher's stature
and renown as an author have grown steadily with the publication of new editions
and collections of his writings, critical studies, and translations in
German, English and Spanish.
This site contains a free-to-download English translation of
Max Blecher's masterpiece Adventures in Immediate Unreality
(Īntāmplari īn irealitate imediata)
as well as links to information about him.