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{{Short description|Romanian writer (1902–1981)}}

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| name = Alexandru Binder

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| caption = AAlexandru portrait of Saşa Pană, by [[Victor Brauner]]Binder

| pseudonym = SaşaSașa Pană

| birth_date = August 8,{{birth date|df=y|1902|08|08}}

| birth_place = [[Bucharest]], [[Romania]]

| death_date = August{{death 22,date and age|1981|08|22|df=y|1902|08|08}}

| death_place = [[Bucharest]], [[Romania]]

| occupation = [[poet, novelist, short story writer]]

| nationality = Romanian

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| movement = [[Dada]]<br>[[Surrealism]]

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| influences = [[André Breton]]

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'''SaşaSașa Pană''' ({{IPA|ro|ˈsaʃa ˈpanə}}; [[pen name]] of '''Alexandru Binder'''; [[8 August 8]] [[1902]]&mdash;[[22 August 22]] [[1981]]) was a [[Romania]]nRomanian [[avant-garde]] poet, novelist, and short story writer.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VuAVAQAAMAAJ |title=Rumanian Review |date=2003 |publisher=Europolis Pub. |pages=183–186 |language=en}}</ref>

==Biography==

Born to a [[JewHistory of the Jews in Romania|Jewish]]ish family in [[Bucharest]], he trained as a physician in [[IaşiIași]] and Bucharest, becoming a qualified [[combat medic]] in 1927. He was more interested in a literary career, which he had begun in [[1925]], after publishing several [[Symbolism (arts)|Symbolism]]-inspired poems under the title ''Răbojul unui muritor'' ("A Mortal's Tally"). He was to be more attracted to [[Dada]] themes, moving on to [[Surrealism]] soon after. Pană financed and edited the [[1928 in literature|1928]] avant-garde magazine named ''unu'' ([[minuscule|lower case]] was used on purpose).<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Cornis-Pope |first1=Marcel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=taw6AAAAQBAJ |title=History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe: Junctures and disjunctures in the 19th and 20th centuries. Volume III: The making and remaking of literary institutions |last2=Neubauer |first2=John |date=2007-07-18 |publisher=John Benjamins Publishing |isbn=978-90-272-9235-3 |pages=52 |language=en}}</ref> The magazine was the basis for a publishing house of the same name, which Pană used for printing works by the likes of [[Urmuz]], [[Tristan Tzara]], [[Stephan Roll]], [[Ilarie Voronca]], as well as his own. His prose took the form of very short pieces that merged the short story form with poem, [[reportage]], and [[manifesto]].

Between 1928 and 1933, ''unu'' published 50 issues, plus a special "conjugal edition" for the occasion of [[Moldov|Moldov's]] wedding.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Brooker |first1=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bvsfioiQ8k8C |title=The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines |last2=Thacker |first2=Andrew |date=2009 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-965958-6 |pages=1180 |language=en}}</ref>

He adapted [[André Breton]]'s ''[[Surrealist automatism|pure psychic automatism]]'' technique to his own creations - ''Diagrame'' ("Diagrams"; 1930), ''Echinox orbitor'' ("Blinding [[Equinox]]"; 1931), ''Viaţa romanţată a lui Dumnezeu'' ("The Romanticized Life of God"; 1932). In later volumes such as ''Cuvântul talisman'' ("The Word-Amulet"; 1933), ''Călătorie cu funicularul'' ("Journey on the [[Funicular]]"; 1934), Saşa Pană expanded on the style, doubling automatism with apparent [[Elegy|elegies]] of a more traditional format.

He adapted [[André Breton]]'s ''[[Surrealist automatism|pure psychic automatism]]'' technique to his own creations - ''Diagrame'' ("Diagrams"; 1930), ''Echinox orbitor'' ("Blinding [[Equinox]]"; 1931), ''ViaţaViața romanţatăromanțată a lui Dumnezeu'' ("The Romanticized Life of God"; 1932). In later volumes such as ''Cuvântul talisman'' ("The Word-Amulet"; 1933), ''Călătorie cu funicularul'' ("Journey on the [[Funicular]]"; 1934), SaşaSașa Pană expanded on the style, doubling automatism with apparent [[Elegy|elegies]] of a more traditional format.

Many of Pană's writings were combined with drawings by notable artists such as [[M. H. Maxy]], [[Man Ray]], [[Victor Brauner]], [[Pablo Picasso]], and [[Marcel Janco]].

He also authored the [[1973 in literature|1973]] novelautobiography ''Născut în '02. Memorii, file de jurnal'' ("Born in 02. Memoirs and diary pages").

Pană died in Bucharest.

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[[Category:Romanian memoirists|Pana, Sasa]]

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