Mihail Sebastian was born in Romania in 1907 as Iosef Hecter. He worked as a lawyer and writer until anti-Semitic legislation forced him to abandon his public career. Having survived the war and the Holocaust, he was killed in a road accident early in 1945 as he was crossing the street to teach his first class. His long-lost diary, Journal 1935-1944: The Fascist Years, was published to great acclaim in the late 1990s.
Des de fa dos mil anys és, com afirma Mihail Sebastian, un acte arriscat de sinceritat. Aquest és el balanç que fa l'autor arran de l'escàndol provocat per la publicació, l'any 1934, d'aquesta novel·la amb el pròleg del seu mentor Nae Ionescu, filòsof compromès amb l'extrema dreta...
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