Editing Tudor Arghezi (section)

===Arghezi and the Communist regime===
A controversial intellectual, Arghezi had a fluctuating relationship with the newly established [[Communist Romania|Communist regime]]. Although he was awarded several literary prizes under during the period of [[Soviet Union|Soviet]]-induced transition to a [[people's republic]], he became a harsh critic of [[censorship]] and [[agitprop]]-like state control in media,<ref>Frunză, p.372</ref> and was targeted as a [[Decadence|decadent]] poet very soon after the communist-dominated republican institutions took power (1948). A series of articles written by [[Miron Radu Paraschivescu]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jurnalul.ro/special-jurnalul/interviuri/cu-sinceritate-despre-arghezi-domnu-dej-vreau-niste-cega-570244.html|title=Cu sinceritate despre Arghezi:"Domnu' Dej, vreau niște cegă!"|publisher=jurnalul.ro|language=ro|last=Roman|first=Toma|access-date=23 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140104212636/http://jurnalul.ro/special-jurnalul/interviuri/cu-sinceritate-despre-arghezi-domnu-dej-vreau-niste-cega-570244.html|archive-date=4 January 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> and [[Sorin Toma]] (son of the [[Stalinism|Stalinist]] literary figure [[Alexandru Toma]])<ref>Tismăneanu, p.110, 310</ref> in the [[Romanian Communist Party]]'s official voice, ''[[Scînteia]]'', described his works as having their origin in Arghezi's "violent insanity", called his style "a pathological phenomenon", and depicted the author as "the main poet of Romanian ''[[bourgeoisie]]''";<ref>Sorin Toma, ''Poezia Putrefacţiei...'', 1948, in Frunză, p.372</ref> the articles were headlined ''Poezia Putrefacţiei sau Putrefacția Poeziei'' ("The Poetry of Decay or the Decay of Poetry", in reference to [[Karl Marx]]'s ''[[The Poverty of Philosophy|The Misery of Philosophy]]'' – the title of which in turn mocked [[Pierre-Joseph Proudhon]]'s ''Philosophy of Misery'').
[[Image:Stamp 1980 Tudor Arghezi.jpg|thumb|200px|Arghezi postage stamp (1980)]]
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The writer had to retreat from public life, spending most of these years at the house he owned in [[Văcărești, Bucharest|Văcărești]], Bucharest, the one he called ''[[Mărțișor]]'' (the name it still goes by today); his main source of income was provided by selling the yields of cherries the surrounding plot returned.<ref>Frunză, p.373; Ţoiu</ref>

However, as [[Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej]], who was also an inmate in penitentiary camp near [[Târgu Jiu]], consolidated his power over the state and Party post-1952, Arghezi was discovered as an asset to the new, more "national" tone of the regime — as several other censored cultural figures, he was paid a visit by [[Miron Constantinescu]], the Communist activist overseeing the [[Rehabilitation (Soviet)|rehabilitation]] process.<ref>Tismăneanu, p.151, 183, 304</ref>

Once exonerated, he started being awarded numerous titles and prizes. Arghezi was elected a member of the [[Romanian Academy]] in 1955, and celebrated as [[national poet]] on his 80th and 85th birthdays. Although never turned-[[Socialist realism|Socialist Realist]],<ref name="Kuiper, p.67">Kuiper, p.67</ref> he adapted his themes to the requirements – such as he did in ''Cântare Omului'' ("Ode to Mankind") and ''1907''.<ref>Olivotto</ref> In 1965, Arghezi also won recognition abroad, being the recipient of the [[Herder Prize]].<ref name="Willhardt et al., p.15"/>

Arghezi's mysterious illness resurfaced with the same symptoms in 1955, and he was rapidly interned in the care of Ion Făgărășanu.<ref name="Zeletin"/> He was diagnosed with a chronic infection that had originated in surgery he had undergone in 1934, provoking an [[abscess]] in the area around his [[lumbar]] [[vertebra]]e; he was released soon completing a treatment which included [[streptomycin]] injections.<ref name="Zeletin"/>

He died and was buried in the garden of his house next to his wife Paraschiva in 1967 (she had died the previous year), with tremendous pomp and funeral festivities orchestrated by Communist Party officials. His home is now a museum. It was managed by his daughter, [[Mitzura Arghezi|Mitzura]] until her death in 2015. Arghezi and Paraschiva also had a son, known as [[Baruțu T. Arghezi|Baruțu]], but actually called Iosif.<ref name="Libertatea">{{cite web|url=http://www.libertatea.ro/detalii/articol/a-murit-fiul-scriitorului-tudor-arghezi-301195.html|title=A murit fiul scriitorului Tudor Arghezi|publisher=Libertatea|language=ro|date=25 August 2010|access-date=5 January 2014}}</ref>