 His 1938 translation from the Comte de Lautréamont's "Songs of Maldoror" accompanied Gherasim Luca's article on Lautréamont in the communist newspaper "Reporter", which insisted on reading Lautréamont through the grid of Marxist literary criticism.Păun's first important work was the 1939 poem "Plămânul sălbatec" ("The Savage Lung"), originally published in the Summer 1938 issue of "Azi" and the following year in book form.His poetry was veering into the apocalyptic, and, according to scholars Yaari and Magliocco, seemed to harbor a presentiment of The Holocaust.