The onirist school of thought formed in
Bucharest in 1964 around a nucleus composed of
Dumitru Țepeneag and
Leonid Dimov (writers who were members of the Luceafărul literary circle – named for the literary magazine
Luceafărul, edited at the time by
Eugen Barbu). There Țepeneag, Barbu and Dimov met
Virgil Mazilescu,
Vintilă Ivănceanu and
Iulian Neacșu. After Eugen Barbu was replaced as a leader of the circle by the ex-avant-garde writer
Miron Radu Paraschivescu, Paraschivescu published a poetry-and-prose supplement to the magazine
Ramuri called
Povestea vorbei; his goal was a new avant-garde magazine uniting old and new oniric poets and writers. In 1966 Vintilă Ivănceanu, Dumitru Țepeneag, Leonid Dimov and Virgil Mazilescu would all publish in
Povestea vorbei before the magazine was summarily banned by the
Stalinist government. Beginning in 1968, the center of the oniric movement moved toward
Luceafărul; there (in addition to the above-mentioned poets and writers),
Emil Brumaru,
Florin Gabrea,
Sorin Titel,
Daniel Turcea and others would publish. Although it was rooted in world oniric literature (especially
German Romanticism – considered by some critics to be a current related to
surrealism – and new French fiction), the group was quickly banned by Romanian
censorship and Țepeneag was forced into exile in
Paris. Many onirist writings remaining in Romania have recently been collected into a book by
Corin Braga, a conservator of the
aesthetics of onirism. Onirism extends into Romanian
postmodernism in the works of
Mircea Cărtărescu. == In medicine ==