 According to Swedish researcher Tom Sandqvist, the "Alge" group was already receiving its cultural inspiration from surrealism and Dada, "favoring more or less absurd puns and provocative, violent gestures".Scholar Giovanni Magliocco summarizes "Alge"-ist philosophy as "a still-embryonic kind of 'surrealism', incendiary and iconoclastic, [...] a literary extremism, verbally violent and delirious, but still confused as far as programs go".Păun was probably the last to actually publish in "Alge" (starting with its 6th issue), which hosted some of his earliest work