Jurnalul fericirii – sau cartea convertirii unei generaţii
The Diary of Happiness or The Book that Converted a Generation

Summary/Abstract: The author discusses the fi rst edition of The Diary of Happiness (Dacia Publishing House, Cluj-Napoca, 1991), a very modest book from a typographical perspective, but with an incredible spiritual impact. For the young generation following the Revolution in December 1989, Nicolae Steinhardt can’t be understood but in the perspective of the 90s, years of gradual denial of N. Ceauşescu and of communism. Everything, from the “quality of paper without quality” to the reception of this volume in that era, evokes a specifi c “spirit” of those years, the years of growing up. The reading of forbidden “classics” meant the setting free from a prison of thought; and The Diary of Happiness was wonderfully contingent to such a state of mind. The 30s and the sufferings in prison have become “the golden age” of a generation of young men in the quest for meaning

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