 The analytical and erotic characteristics merged in several of Aderca's works.Crohmălniceanu notes that Aderca saw in sexuality the answer to a command arising "from the depths of life and the cosmic order", as well as the true source of human identity and individuality.Paul Cernat argues that, with fellow critic-novelist N. D. Cocea, Aderca was among those "Contimporanul" men who remained outside the avant-garde movement, while making only few concessions to avant-garde aesthetics.