Author of more than fifty books, including novels, collections of essays, as well as quite a few volumes of poetry,…
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Mihail Sebastian was born Iosif Hechter in 1907 in Brăila on the Danube; he changed his name in 1927 when…
Captives deserves to stand on the same shelf with Joyce’s Ulysses, Döblin’s Berlin, Alexanderplatz, Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury,…
I have lived in Romania since just before the end of the last century and have been translating from the…
A SLICE OF BREAD Terrible cold, hunger. A persistent, nagging hunger. Like a relentless, evil spirit, which leaves you not…
‘For, on Saturday evening, after he counted at least three stars in the sky, Schmiel would pour slivovitz in a…