Deserves to be on the same shelf as Anne Frank's Diary and to find as huge a readership.' Philip Roth
Mihail Sebastian was the pen-name of the Romanian writer Iosif Hechter. Born in the Danube port of Br-ila, he died in a road accident in 1945. During the period between the wars he was well-known for his lyrical and ironic plays and for urbane psychological novels tinged with melancholy, as well as for his extraordinary literary essays.
This book is alive, a human soul lives in it, along with the
unfolding ghastliness of the last century, which passed an inch
away from Sebastian's nose. His prose is like something Chekov
might have written - the same modesty, candour, and subtleness of
observation. Here is a life, and an absurd death, whose spell will
last a long time
*Arthur Miller*
This humane masterpiece deserves to be ranked alongside the diaries
of Victor Klemperer for its quiet, and indeed humorous, insights
into the nature of wickedness
*Times Literary Supplement*
A brilliantly haunting account of the rise of anit-Semitism and
Fascism. At times it gives so intimate a feeling of fear that it is
painful to read
*BBC History*
Moving, perceptive and sharply observed...the journal is a valuable
addition not just to the canon of wartime and holocaust literature,
but to that of all humanity
*Literary Review*
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