Geo Bogza's lifelong but uneven involvement with Surrealism has endured as a topic of interest, and was considered by many to have resulted in some of his best writings. Bogza was defined by art critic S. A. Mansbach as "the most scandalous of Romania's avant-garde poets and editor of and contributor to a plethora of its radical publications", while "Sex Diary" was argued to be "the touchstone of Romania's emerging Surrealist avant-garde". In 1992, the American avant-garde magazine "Exquisite Corpse" accompanied some of his early poems with the observation "It is the younger Bogza we love."