Word: dumitriu
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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INCOGNITO by Petru Dumitriu. 47 pages. Macmillan...
...under Communism brings to the thinking idealist. Some are the muffled voices that come out of the chill fog of post-Stalinist "thaws," others angry protests of those driven to refuge in the West. Few have been more bitterly outspoken or better qualified to speak than Rumanian Novelist Petru Dumitriu, 40. Before he defected, Dumitriu's novels were widely read in Eastern Europe; he had been loaded with decorations and had risen to be editor of the country's most important literary magazine and director of the State Publishing House. Then, on a cultural mission to pre-Wall...
Sleep of Innocence. Yet if the price of freedom was high, the cost of tyranny had been overwhelming, as Dumitriu made clear in the semi-autobiographical novel Meeting at the Last Judgment, which he wrote after his escape. In his latest novel, he broadens his scope somewhat. The narrator is again a Rumanian writer and well-placed party intellectual, plotting escape to the West and caught up in the reptilian intrigues that are the implacable condition of life near the top of one-party dictatorships. But the central character is a friend of his, Sebastian lonescu, whose life provides...