Max Blecher lived a dreadful life: starting his studies in Medicine in Paris, he became ill with the terrible disease of Pot (tuberculosis of the bones).

At the age of nineteen, he was irrevocably registered as ill, a resident of sanatoriums, and spent the rest of his life almost exclusively in a horizontal position, with long periods of treatment in spas in France, Switzerland, and Romania.

Writing became for Blecher a counterbalance and, to a large extent, a triumph over his personal tragedy. With the publication of "Incidents," he won critical praise from the "difficult" Ionesco, while he was a prolific correspondent and interlocutor of Breton, Gide, and Heidegger.

In recent years, his work has been rediscovered and translated into the major European languages. The author is now considered a significant point of reference in the modern "canon" of Romania.