In the canon
Journal, 1935 44
- Form
- Form Diary
- Year
- Year 1996
- Originally in
- Originally in Romanian
- Pages
- Pages 700
Mozart on the radio, a ski slope at Predeal, a new play in rehearsal, and on the same page the news that another friend has gone over to the Iron Guard. Mihail Sebastian kept this diary in Bucharest while the people he loved most, Mircea Eliade among them, became apologists for a fascism that would take his work, his rights and very nearly his life as a Jew.
The whole city smells of lilies and smoke.
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