During that period, Geo Bogza became one of the most recognizable young rebellious authors, a category that also included, among others, Marcel Avramescu, Gherasim Luca, Paul Păun, Constantin Nisipeanu and Sesto Pals. In time, he became a noted contributor to the leftist and socialist press, and one of the most respected Romanian authors of reportage prose. One of his articles-manifestos read: "I always had the uncomfortable impression that any beauty may enter the consciousness of a bourgeois only "on all fours" in the original." Writing for "Urmuz", he condemned convention as "a false sun" and "intellectual acrobatics", depicting his magazine as "a lash that whips the mind".