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Author: Mihail Sebastian; Mark Mazower; Philip Ó Ceallaigh
Publisher: New York : Other Press, 2017. ©2016
Edition/Format:  Print book : Fiction : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Mihail Sebastian's 1934 masterpiece, now available in English for the first time, was written as the rise of fascism forced him out of his literary career and turned his friends and colleagues against him. Confronted with the violence of a recurrent anti-Semitism, Sebastian questions its causes in this perceptive testimony, illuminating the ideological debates of the interwar period with wit, simplicity and  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Jewish fiction
Romanian fiction
Psychological fiction
Fiction
History
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Sebastian, Mihail, 1907-1945.
For two thousand years.
New York : Other Press, 2017
(DLC) 2017011475
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Mihail Sebastian; Mark Mazower; Philip Ó Ceallaigh
ISBN: 9781590518762 1590518764
OCLC Number: 966915631
Notes: "Originally published in Romanian as De doua mii de ani in 1934. Original English-language edition first published by Penguin Books Ltd, London" [2016] -- title page verso.
Description: x, 229 pages ; 21 cm
Other Titles: De două mii de ani.
Responsibility: Mihail Sebastian ; translated from the Romanian by Philip Ó Ceallaigh ; with a foreword by Mark Mazower.

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"Mihail Sebastian's 1934 masterpiece, now available in English for the first time, was written as the rise of fascism forced him out of his literary career and turned his friends and colleagues against him. Confronted with the violence of a recurrent anti-Semitism, Sebastian questions its causes in this perceptive testimony, illuminating the ideological debates of the interwar period with wit, simplicity and vivacity"--

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