Actor în procesul Pătrășcanu by Belu Zilber

Although he made his name as a writer and journalist, his most ardent wish was to become an actor. She hailed from a family of yeomen ( răzeși) or landowners, and her artistic education helped shape his cultural tastes from early childhood. Nicolae's mother, Cleopatra, was a published author and a journalist. The Coceas descended from an 18th-century Albanian Moldavian Serdar Gheorghe Cocea, but claimed lineage from a 16th-century soldier in the armies of Michael the Brave. His father, Dumitru Cocea, was a Romanian Land Forces officer, who would reach the rank of General. Another daughter, Ioana-Maria Cocea, is a noted sculptor.īorn in Bârlad, Cocea claimed lineage from the lesser boyar aristocracy of Moldavia. Cocea was from a theatrical family: his daughters Dina and Tantzi, like his sister Alice before them, were acclaimed actresses.

After World War II, Cocea was again close to the Communist Party and, from 1948, rose to prominence as an official writer for the communist regime.įor a while the son-in-law of journalist Constantin Mille, N. His novels, the vast majority of which are samples of erotic literature, fueled innuendo about his sexual exploits, which also resulted in his sentencing for statutory rape. Cocea, although kept under constant surveillance, was rumored to have been an opportunistic double dealer, and his personal life was a matter of public scandal.

In 1923, he was found guilty of lèse majesté.

His allegiances however switched between parties: during World War I, he supported the Entente Powers and, as a personal witness of the October Revolution, the government of Soviet Russia, before returning home as a communist.ĭuring the interwar period, Cocea was elected to Romanian Parliament as an independent socialist, campaigned for the outlawed Romanian Communist Party, and found his press banned by the authorities on several occasions. Cocea later made his name as a republican and anticlerical agitator, was arrested as an instigator during the 1907 peasant revolt, and played a leading role in regrouping the scattered socialist clubs. The founder of many newspapers and magazines, including Viața Socială, Rampa, Facla and Chemarea, collaborating with writer friends such as Tudor Arghezi, Gala Galaction and Ion Vinea, he fostered and directed the development of early modernist literature in Romania. Cocea (common rendition of Nicolae Dumitru Cocea, Romanian pronunciation:, also known as Niculae, Niculici or Nicu Cocea Novem– February 1, 1949) was a Romanian journalist, novelist, critic and left-wing political activist, known as a major but controversial figure in the field of political satire. Satire, parody, essay, prose poetry, erotic literature, political novel, travel writing

Journalist, critic, novelist, politician, activist, lawyer

Actor în procesul Pătrășcanu by Belu Zilber