num_pages: 264
description: The 'unbearable 80s', as the last decade of the Ceauşescu era has been called in Romania, are in the focus of this quasi-autobiographical work. The book vividly portrays the difficulties encountered by a young intellectual trying to shape himself under the oppressive regime and provides a stark depiction of a man's intellectual suffocation under hard-line socialist rule. 
language: English
title: Flying Against the Arrow: An Intellectual in Ceausescu's Romania
titlecomplete: Flying Against the Arrow: An Intellectual in Ceausescu's Romania (Central European Library of Ideas)
genres: History, Biography, Memoir, Romania, Philosophy, Romanian Literature, Politics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 159
publisher: Central European University Press