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[[File:Fănuș Neagu smoking, 1959.png|thumb|upright=1.2|1959 photograph of Neagu smoking]]
Neagu rarely attended courses (with the exception of a lecture in aesthetics, provided by [[Tudor Vianu]]),<ref name="gdamintiri"/> and was ultimately enlisted in the distance-learning section;<ref name="micu558"/> still, he "did not have the patience to graduate."<ref name="așromlit02"/> He had befriended poet [[Nichita Stănescu]]. The two of them still paid lip service cu [[Marxism-Leninism]], which they had to learn for their exams, but secretly trafficked in banned literature, including books by [[Tudor Arghezi]] and [[Ion Barbu]].<ref name="alduzi"/> After a disciplinary meeting with rector Ion Cotranu, who asked him to refrain from corrupting his fellow students, Neagu realized that he could find more gainful employment, joining the staff of ''[[Scînteia Tineretului]]''.<ref name="gdamintiri"/> This daily, put out by the [[Union of Communist Youth]], had him as an editor between 1954 and 1956.<ref name="așromlit02"/><ref name="micu558"/>
Also in 1954, Neagu published his debut novella, ''Dușman cu lumea'' ("An Enemy to the World"), in ''Tînărul Scriitor'' magazine.<ref name="așromlit02"/><ref name="micu558"/><ref name="cartedeviz"/> He had already impressed his universe colleagues by reading out his ''Cocoșul roșu'' ("Red Rooster"), which also usurped the literary canons of [[Socialist realism in Romania|socialist realism]]. As noted by Dimisianu, Neagu had managed to show his peers that they could write both realistically and beautifully about the lives of peasants, at a time before [[Marin Preda]]'s signature novels.<ref name="gdamintiri"/> According to Voncu, he was fast on his way to becoming a herald of Romania's "neo-modernism", "which is to say a break with socialist-realism and a return to the models of interwar modernism".<ref name="rvzeceani"/> Commentators have also described his writings as a Romanian contribution to "[[magic realism]]". They disagree as to whether he was a precursor of the [[Latin American Boom]]<ref name="ntvârstă"/><ref name="ghtfănuș">[[Gheorghe Tomozei]], "Fănuș", in ''Ateneu'', Vol. 30, Issue 7, July 1993, p. 7</ref> or an ultimately failed local variant.<ref name="mcfănuș">[[Marius Chivu]], "Fănuș, personajul", in ''[[Observator Cultural]]'', Issue 157, February–March 2003, p. 10</ref>
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