Journal 1935-1944: The Fascist Years
 

Journal 1935-1944: The Fascist Years

by Mihail Sebastian, Radu Ioanid, Patrick Camiller

The remarkable and many-sided diary of the fascist years in Romania by a young novelist, playwright, journalist, and poet--a Jew who counted among his friends the leading intellectuals and social luminaries of a sophisticated Eastern European culture. This extraordinary personal diary...deserves to be on the same shelf as Anne Frank's Diary and to find as huge a readership. --Philip Roth.... (read more)

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I spend a lot of time reading this book, not because its sheer big volume, but because I just didn't wanted to finish it. I confess that I was having an acute crysis of what I call "autumn ache" when only Mihail Sebastian's journal and Duke Ellington could make me feel better. I even remember that I felt like I didn't communicate with nobody as I did with Mihail Sebastian. He was a jew (his birth name was Iosef Hetcher) intellectual in the 30thies, ne from that brilliant generation of young...

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