Standalone Novels In Publication Order
- Women (1933)
- For Two Thousand Years (1934)
- The Town with Acacia Trees (1935)
- The Accident (1940)
Mihail Sebastian Journals Books In Publication Order
- Journal 1935-1944 (1996)
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The Accident
In the tradition of S ndor M rai, Mihail Sebastian is a captivating Central European storyteller from the first half of the twentieth century whose work is being rediscovered by new generations of readers throughout Europe, Latin America, and the United States. The 2000 publication of his Journal 1935 1944: The Fascist Years introduced his writing to an English speaking audience for the first time, garnering universal acclaim. Philip Roth wrote that Sebastian’s Journal ‘deserves to be on the same shelf as Anne Frank’s Diary and to find as huge a readership.’Outside of the English speaking world, Sebastian’s reputation rests on his fiction. This publication of The Accident marks the first appearance of the author’s fiction in English. A love story set in the Bucharest art world of the 1930s and the Transylvanian mountains, it is a deeply romantic, enthralling tale of two people who meet by chance. Along snowy ski trails and among a mysterious family in a mountain cabin, Paul and Nora, united by an attraction that contains elements of repulsion, find the keys to their fate. Mihail Sebastian 1907 1945 was born in southeastern Romania and worked in Bucharest as a lawyer, journalist, novelist, and playwright until anti Semitic legislation forced him to abandon his public career. His long lost diary, Journal 1935 1944: The Fascist Years, was published in seven countries between 1996 and 2007, launching an international revival of his work. Sebastian’s novels and plays are available in translation throughout Europe, and also have been published in Chinese, Hindi, Bengali, and Hebrew.
Journal 1935-1944
Mihail Sebastian was a promising young Jewish writer in pre war Bucharest, a novelist, playwright, poet and journalsit 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 a road accident early in 1945. His remarkable diary was published in its original language and is here translated into English. This book offers a chronicle of the darkest years of European anti Semitism and an analysis of erotic and social life. Above all, it is an account of the ‘rhinocerization’ of the major Roman intellectuals who were Sebastian’s friends, writers and thinkers who were mesmirized by the na*zi 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. Sebastian’s journal captures the now vanished world of pre war Bucharest, known affectionately at the time as ‘little paris’ Under the pressure of hatred and horror in the ‘huge anti Semitic factory’ that was Romania in the years of World war II, his writing stands as an importanthuman and literary document to survive from a singular era of terror and despair.
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