Journal, 1935-1944
By: Mihail Sebastian ; translated from the Romanian by Patrick Camiller ; with an introduction and notes by Radu Ioanid
Contributors: Ioanid, Radu
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 641
Subjects: Sebastian, Mihail, -- 1907-1945 -- Diaries; Jews -- Romania -- Diaries; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Romania -- Personal narratives; Romania -- Biography; Romania -- Politics and government -- 1914-1944
Genres: Diaries; Personal narratives; Biography
Work titles: Jurnal.
Description: "Mihail Sebastian's diary of the fascist years in Romania, written half a century ago, was at last published only recently, and is here translated into English for the first time. Sebastian was a promising your Jewish writer in prewar Bucharest - a novelist, playwright, poet, and journalist who counted among his friends the leading intellectuals and social luminaries of a sophisticated Eastern European culture.

Because of Romania's opportunistic treatment of Jews, he survived the war and the Holocaust, only to be killed in early 1945 in an automobile accident.".

"The book offers not only a chronicle of the dark years of Nazism but a lucid and finely shaded analysis of erotic and social life, a Jew's diary, a reader's notebook, and a music lover's journal. Above all, it is a measured but blistering account of the "rhinocerization" of major Romanian intellectuals who were Sebastian's friends, including Mircea Elaide and E.M.

Cioran, writers and thinkers who were mesmerized by the Nazi-fascist delirium of Europe's "reactionary revolution." In poignant and memorable sequences, Sebastian touches on the progression of the machinery of brutalization and on the historical context that lay behind it."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index