1. Also deemed a "Hermeticist" for the lexical obscurity in some of his poems, as well as for the similarity between his style and that of Ion Barbu, Alexandru Robot was in particular noted for his pastorals, where he fused modernist elements into a traditionalist convention.
Alexandru Robot was declared missing some two months after the German-Romanian takeover of Bessarabia, dying in mysterious circumstances.
Alexandru Robot's father was, according to conflict accounts, either a clerk or the warden of a Jewish cemetery in Bucharest.
Alexandru Robot made his editorial debut in 1932, at age 16, with the lyric poetry volume Apocalips terestru.
Alexandru Robot joined them again on Petrasincu's Discobolul, and had samples of his work featured in Cristalul.
Alexandru Robot was among the young writers who contributed to the literary review Ulise, launched in Bucharest by critic Lucian Boz.
In 1935, Alexandru Robot took the decision of leaving his home region, the Old Kingdom, and made his way to Chisinau, the cultural capital of Bessarabia region.
Alexandru Robot traveled extensively throughout Bessarabia and the Budjak, covering the life of Lipovan fishermen in Valcov and public interest issues such as the trial in Chisinau of Romanian Communist Party militant Petre Constantinescu-Iasi.
Vladimir Prisacaru writes that Alexandru Robot had a "hard to explain predilection" for covering the Budjak, and argues that the author had, "without hidden interest, evidenced [the region's] Romanian character".
Alexandru Robot published a large number of critical sketches focusing on major figures in European and Romanian literature, and was similarly interested in art, theater and ballet criticism.
In particular, Alexandru Robot received praise for his interview with the Bessarabian-born actress Maria Cebotari.
Alexandru Robot stayed behind in his adoptive region after Romania's 1940 cession of Bessarabia to the Soviet Union.
In particular, Lungu notes, Alexandru Robot followed the official Soviet stance on a "Moldovan language", distinct from Romanian and regulated by the pedagogical institutions in Balta.
In September 1940, when Romania was under fascist government, Alexandru Robot even visited Lovinescu at his club in Bucharest.
However, according to Vladimir Prisacaru, Alexandru Robot was a shipwreck victim, who died alongside other Bessarabian refugees, when their ship, sailing from Odesa to Crimea, sank in the Black Sea.
Reportedly, Alexandru Robot had intended to print a selection of his communist-themed lyrical pieces under the title A inflorit Moldova.
Alexandru Robot assesses that, having probably been inspired by Barbu's volume Joc secund, Alexandru Robot had ventured to introduce his adoptive region to "a new and very capricious phenomenon, hermetic writing".
In Turcanu's view, Alexandru Robot's poetry alternated such stylistic concerns with echoes from a wing of Romania's Symbolist environment: the aesthetic synthesis performed by celebrated writer Tudor Arghezi, whose Testament piece is believed by the same commentator to be at the source of Alexandru Robot's Prefata.
Alexandru Robot followed these stylistic approaches in the pastoral genre, which forms a special segment of his writings: according to George Calinescu, it is one "of greater promise", but "tiresome" in the long run.
Calinescu makes mention of the connection between the choice of such subjects and Alexandru Robot's Jewishness, expressed in stanzas ostensibly referencing the Land of Israel:.
Colesnic, who finds such fragments to be "tiny literary jewels, that can be included in any textbook, in any anthology", centers his attention on a piece that Alexandru Robot dedicated to the Martisor spring custom.
Until the fall of the Soviet Union and the independence of Moldova, author Mihai Vakulovski argues, Alexandru Robot was one of the writers who received official approval, being deemed characteristic for the Moldavian SSR's culture.
At around the same time, Alexandru Robot was gaining a following in Communist Romania.
Samples of Alexandru Robot's prose were included in Eugen Lungu's 2004 anthology Literatura din Basarabia in secolul XX.