‘You have to hang on’
Eugen Weber: Mihail Sebastian, 15 November 2001
Journal 1935-44
by Mihail Sebastian, translated by Patrick Camiller.
Heinemann, 641 pp., £20, September 2001,0 434 88577 0 Show More
by Mihail Sebastian, translated by Patrick Camiller.
Heinemann, 641 pp., £20, September 2001,
“... In June 1934, a young Romanian Jew published a book about being a Jew in Romania. Mihail Sebastian’s De Doua mii de ani (‘For 2000 Years’) was not an autobiography or a novel or a diary, although a bit of each. The hero, who is never named, lives the tragicomedy of assimilation in a land and a culture that both invite and repel ... ”