THE ILLUMINATED ABYSS
THE ILLUMINATED ABYSS

Summary/Abstract: The illuminated abyss is a literary work which includes the period of imprisonment, being a reconstruction of Nicolae Balotă's detention period (1956-1964). It is a work of testimony of the most hostile period of the author's life- that of the communist terror. The volume innovates through the detachment with which the scholar writes his memoirs. The volume was written at an advanced age of the scholar and it is made up of forty fragments, being divided into three parts. Thus, the first part contains stories that describe the prison experience, the second part contains fragments describing the 1950’s atmosphere of the Romanian city of Cluj and the last part contains portraits of the people with whom the intellectual had contact with.

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