Max Blecher

Max Blecher (1909-1938) was born in the city of Roman, Romania, into a middle-class Jewish family. At an early age (1928), he was diagnosed with bone tuberculosis and spent the rest of his life undergoing long periods of treatment in health resorts in France, Switzerland, and Romania. He engaged in various forms of prose, wrote poetry, and maintained a rich correspondence with prominent writers and thinkers such as Breton, Gide, and Heidegger. In recent years, his work has been rediscovered and translated into the major European languages.