Word: lonescu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 a large-scale map of all the circles of Iron Curtain hell...
...depends largely on non-scholars for his articles. "We are not here," he says "to inflate academic egos." Schechner, who turns out the magazine with the help of Associate Editor Ted Hoffman, worked on college newspapers at Cornell and Iowa University, was in Paris writing his doctoral thesis on lonescu when he was tapped for the T.D.R...
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