The experimental prose written by Urmuz, the pseudonym of Dem. Demetrescu-Buzău (1883- 1923), represents a model for the Romanian avant-garde movement, anticipating not only the Surrealists' iconoclastic fervor in blowing up all sorts of stereotypes, but also some of the main features of the so called absurd theater created by Eug?ne Ionesco. Like Ionesco, Urmuz has the propensity towards dissimulating - behind an elaborate network of absurd...