Word: gheorghiu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Twenty-Fifth Hour, by Virgil Gheorghiu. A concentration-camp novel which has become Europe's bestseller (TIME...
...Twenty-Fifth Hour, by Virgil Gheorghiu. A concentration-camp novel which has become Europe's bestseller (TIME...
...Twenty-Fifth Hour, by Virgil Gheorghiu. A concentration-camp novel which has become Europe's bestseller; chiefly interesting as a landmark in Euro pean pessimism in the first aftermath of World War II (TIME...
...Twenty-Fifth Hour, by Virgil Gheorghiu. A concentration-camp novel which has become Europe's bestseller; chiefly interesting as a landmark in European pessimism in the first aftermath of World War II (TIME...
...Gheorghiu wrote his novel in the years 1946-48, and since then a lot of water has run under the bridges of the Danube and the Seine. The Twenty-Fifth Hour catches the despair of many a European in the aftermath of World War II, amid the shards of a broken Europe. By so doing, it has unquestionably won itself a place in the literary history of the times. But like many another European, including Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, Author Gheorghiu now admits that even despair is not without its choices. A fortnight ago, living and writing in a Europe...