<p>A gorgeous, tender modern classic about the complexities of love, with an introduction from the Booker-winning author John Banville\nStefan Valeriu, a young Romanian student, holidays alone in the Alps, where he soon becomes entangled in romantic relationships with three different women who pass through his guesthouse. We follow Stefan after his return to Paris as he reflects on the women in his life, at times playing the lover, and at others observing shrewdly from the periphery.\nWomen's four interlinked stories offer nuanced and deeply moving portraits of romantic relationships in all their complexity, from unrequited love and passionate affairs to tepid marriages of convenience. In light, elegant prose, Mihail Sebastian, widely regarded as the greatest Romanian writer of the 20th century, explores longing, otherness, empathy, and regret.\n'His prose is like something Chekov might have written - the same modesty, candour, and subtleness of observation' Arthur Miller\n'I love Sebastian's courage, his lightness, and his wit' John Banville\n'Sebastian belongs in the pantheon of classic authors' New Statesman</p>

Women

Mihail Sebastian

Romance

VIKING

Journal, 1935-44

Biographies & Memoirs

Heinemann

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 nazi-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.

Journal 1935-44 : The Fascist Years

Random House]

Femei

Literature & Fiction

HOFFMAN

De doua mii de ani... (Romanian Edition)

Editura Cartex

<p>"Femei"e formata de fapt din 4 nuvele, in care feminitatea este dezgolita, iesind la iveala sub mai multe forme. Toate patru nuvelele au ca personaj comun pe Stefan Valeriu, singura punte de legatura intre ele. Toate patru surprind Femeia in diverse ipostaze si o trec prin sita observatiei psihologice. Vocile narative se succed, stilul este simplu, naratiunea este insa proaspata si te tine cu cartea in mana.</p>

Femei (Romanian Edition)

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