Previously, writers such as Marius Ianuș were, in fact, in contact with Cărtărescu, who is a professor at the University of Bucharest. However, there are a few poets such as Romulus Bucur, Ion Mureșan, Mariana Marin or Elena Ștefoi who were/are cited among the favorite poets of the younger generation. Later, after the 1980ists were repeatedly accused of not being genuine dissidents, writers of the 2000's generation have criticised the 'artificial', 'bookish', self-referential prose of textualist novelists and especially the 'flamboyant', 'unrealistic' poetry of Cărtărescu (that, for instance, would portray the desolant Bucharest of Communist era as a 'second Las Vegas'). However, the influence of Nichita is quite obvious, for instance, on some of the poems by Cărtărescu and Ion Stratan. They attempted to reject the metaphysical poetry of Nichita Stănescu (rooted in the - now considered obsolete - models of interwar modernism) and to bring poetry 'in the street'. Simionescu) and poets of the banal such as Mircea Ivănescu and Petre Stoica. The writers of this generation have frequently cited as influences the American poets of the Beat generation, the Imagists, the Romanian and international avant-garde (Paul Eluard and Voronca are among the names mentioned in his early poems by Cărtărescu), the lost generation of Geo Dumitrescu and Constant Tonegaru, the aesthetic oneirists (especially Dimov), the Târgoviște School ( M.H. The Anthology of 1980ist Poetry (by Alexandru Mușina, cover of first edition) 3 Writers associated with this generation.

Frequently cited as 'leader' of the 1980's generation is the poet and prose writer Mircea Cărtărescu. Critics that have actively promoted this generation, such as Nicolae Manolescu, consider it an authentic neo-avantgarde and a revolution in Romanian literature, a significant step forward, even more so than neomodernism, while other critics, such as Marin Mincu, have argued that it is merely a step, albeit an important one, in the course of experimentalism, in which the writers have managed to (more or less) bring into the mainstream the innovations that had already been introduced by the likes of Leonid Dimov, Mircea Ivănescu or Mircea Horia Simionescu, eventually modifying the contents of the post-war canon. They were associated with textualism and especially postmodernism. The 1980's generation, also nicknamed ' the generation in blue jeans' (in Romanian: generația optzeci/optzecistă, generația în blugi) is the generation of Romanian writers of the 1980's. Coșovei and Florin Iaru (photo by Tudor Jebeleanu on the back cover of Aer cu diamante, 1981) From left to right: Ion Stratan, Mircea Cărtărescu, Traian T.

Mircea Ivănescu 80 by Al. Cistelecan