Mihaela Lidia Irimia, University of Bucharest, Romania -1999
"An exciting book, extremely inquisitive, sparkingly elegant and always freshingly invigorating... I would certainly buy the book and strongly recommend it."
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Book Description
Translated from the best selling Romanian edition,
Flying Against the Arrow is the first in a new series
Central European Library of Ideas. Quasi-autobiographical, the 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 wide-ranging than just Romania or the 1980s.
Central European Library of Ideas is a new series of books that will shape and fuel current Central European debates. The series editor, Sorin Antohi, and an international advisory board will select the most innovative and challenging titles that set the intellectual agendas of whole societies, or which take issue with central concerns in the region. The series will be of interest to anyone concerned with the current ideologies shaping the future of Central and Eastern Europe.
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