Obedenaru was steeped in the Bohemian literary milieu at the turn of the 20th century, frequenting Alexandru Macedonski's Literatorul circle.
Forgotten after a long absence from writing, he submitted youthful memories and autobiographical fragments to Adevărul and Dimineața late in life, in 1933.
His work appeared in Nicolae Davidescu's 1943 Symbolist anthology Din poezia noastră parnasiană.
Obedenaru was one of the minor "decadent" poets from the end of the 19th century, with a propensity for the macabre, Satanism and shadowy worlds.
His verses display a marked reverence for fixed forms (sonnets, roundels) and an attraction to Symbolist-Parnassian images.