The face of the man behind the poet Tudor Arghezi

According to a so-called autobiographical article published in 1941, Tudor Arghezi’schildhood was nothing but a painful age” of his life. Literary history doesn’t mention much abouthis childhood and adolescence. When asked, he refused to give further information about his life.His work only shows signs of a tumultuous life experience. In some of Tudor Arghezi’s poems andnovels his mother is an iconic character. This is a compensation for her anonimous biographicalidentity. His biography is more like a literary work because of the poet’s continuous effort to createan identity which did not remind him of his true, unpleasant past experience.