"""Boz"" was the pseudonym of which author?"
Sketches by Boz non-narrative pen-portraits, but the last section comprises fictional stories. The sketch "Mr Minns and his Cousin" (originally titled "A Dinner at Poplar Walk"), was the first work of fiction Dickens ever published. It appeared in "The Monthly Magazine" in December 1833. Although Dickens continued to place pieces in that magazine, none of them bore a signature until August 1834, when "The Boarding House" appeared under the strange pen-name "Boz". A verse in "Bentley's Miscellany" for March 1837 recalled the public's perplexity about this pseudonym: Dickens took the pseudonym from a nickname he had given his younger brother Augustus, whom he
Lucian Boz A member of the Eugen Lovinescu-led "Sburătorul" literary society, he contributed to "Facla", Isac Ludo's "Adam", "Adevărul Literar și Artistic", "Tiparnița Literară", "Capricorn", "Mișcarea", "unu" (where he used the pseudonym "Vasile Cernat"), "Contimporanul" (where he was editorial secretary in 1930-1931), "Discobolul", and "Viața Românească". He began frequenting literary cafes, befriending, among others, Eugène Ionesco, Alexandru Sahia, and Ionathan X. Uranus. Boz was a noted promoter of literary modernism, and, according to scholar Paul Cernat, "the only enthusiastic supporter of the homegrown avant-garde". In "Contimporanul", he introduced Romanians to the work of James Joyce. It is seen by Cernat as his