“At a time of psychoanalysis, and of the study of the subconscious mind and sexual perversion, art too adopts the instruments provided by the new science. The avant-garde author (Dadaist, surrealist or expressionist) rediscovers the physiological, already explored by naturalists, decadents and Baudelairian poetics, and adds to it the subconscious.”

Maria Luisa Lombardo about the interwar period in Erotica magna. A history of Romanian literature beyond its taboos, EUV, Timişoara, 2004