Felix Aderca

Felix Aderca (born March 13, 1891 in Puieşti, Vaslui as Zelicu Froim Adercu ; † December 12, 1962 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian poet, author and essayist.

life and work

Aderca was of Jewish origin and wrote in the 1930s for left-wing newspapers and magazines, including Contimporanul (German: Der Zeitgenosse), a Romanian avant-garde magazine. After 1945 he lived in constant fear of arrest and died in Bucharest in 1962.

Aderca gained notoriety outside of the Romanian-speaking area with his science fiction novel Die Unterwasserstädte (original title: Orașele înecate or Orașele scufundate ) , published in 1936 . Aderca describes how - due to the cooling of our sun - humanity is withdrawing into the depths of the oceans. Huge domed cities arise on the sea floor. But even this is only a postponement before the relentless death by cold, since the last raw material deposits are running out. There are only two ways of survival for mankind: either to penetrate into the hot volcanic interior of the earth to use the natural heat supply of the earth's core, or at the last minute to look for a way into the cosmos through the ice of the freezing oceans.

He was married to the poet Sanda Movilă .

Works (in selection)

Poems

• Motifs și simfonii (1910)
• Stihuri venerice (1912)
• Fragments. Novels (1912)
• Reverii sculptate (1912)

Novella

• Femeia cu carnea albă (1927)

essay

• Micertrat de estetică sau Lumea privită estetic (1929)

Novels

• Țapul (1921; ed.a II-a, Mireasa multiplă (Țapul) , 1932; ed.a III-a, Zeul iubirii , 1945)
• Moartea unei republici roșii (1924)
• Omul descompus (1925)
• Al doilea amant al doamnei Chatterley (1933)
• A fost odată un imperiu (1939)
• Orașele înecate (1936) - German: The underwater cities
• Jurnalul lui Andrei Hudici (1958)

Web links

• Literature by and about Felix Aderca in the catalog of the German National Library
• Felix Aderca in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Works by and about Felix Aderca at Open Library