Eugen Constant

Eugen Constant was a Craiova-based Romanian writer, labor organizer, and political activist. Born into relative poverty, he was trained as an accountant and worked for long as a teacher in trade schools. He was called up under arms during World War I, making his debut as a poet at Iași, in 1917. His early works alternated between displays of Romanian nationalism and themes borrowed from the Symbolists; he was often seen, by both contemporaries and later reviewers, as a minor, indigestible poet, and his one social novel, published in 1935, was similarly panned. Eugen's output, like that of his brothers Paul and Savin, largely illustrated the author's leftist convictions and tropes, showing influences from Marxism; during the 1920s and into the Great Depression, he was in permanent contact with the Romanian Communist Party, which directed his contributions in trade unionism. He took a public stand in defense of workers and activists during the Grivița Strike of 1933, his propaganda leading to his near-prosecution by the Romanian monarchy.

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