Overview: Editorial Review

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. Published in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Unforgettable...compelling....Mihail Sebastian is an unparalleled diarist...a profoundly intelligent literary voice in the midst of political disempowerment, corruption and carnage. --Alice Kaplan, New York Times Book Review. Translated from the Romanian by Patrick Camiller, with an Introduction and Notes by Radu Ioanid.