Flying Against the Arrow

An Intellectual in Ceausescu's Romania

• Author(s): H.-R. Patapievici,
• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Pages: 252
• ISBN_10: 9639116572
  ISBN_13: 9789639116573
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Europe / General , Biography & Autobiography / Historical , Biography & Autobiography / Political , History / Europe / Eastern , Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism ,

Description:... Translated from the best selling Romanian edition, Flying against the Arrow, this quasi-autobiographical book describes the life of an intellectual living under extreme political conditions, paying particular attention to the 'unbearable 80s'. The book vividly portrays the difficulties encountered by a young intellectual trying to shape himself under the oppressive Ceausescu regime and provides a stark depiction of a man's intellectual suffocation under hard-line socialist rule. The book's overall significance is therefore far more wideranging than just Romania or the 1980s.