Emil Gulian

Emil Gulian was a Romanian poet.
Born in Giurgiu, he earned degrees in law and philosophy from the University of Bucharest and practiced as a lawyer. His first published work appeared in Universul literar at a time when Camil Petrescu was director. He contributed poems, prose and criticism to Universul literar, România Literară, Contimporanul, Vremea, Azi, Cuvântul, Convorbiri Literare and Rampa. He published a single poetry book, Duh de basm. His poems, abstract and creating an impression of hermeticism, feature echoes of Ion Barbu's work. Nearly all are erotic, and describe a symbolic landscape in which vagueness, cold and abstraction are the forms through which a simulated melancholy manifests itself. Authors he translated include Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Claudel, Jules Supervielle, Valery Larbaud, François Mauriac and Georges [Duhamel (author)|Georges Duhamel]. He was awarded the Romanian [Writers' Society] prize in 1934. He was killed while fighting on the front during World War II.