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The Writer Monach N. Steinhardt

Author(s): Constantin Cubleşan
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Renaşterea Cluj
Keywords: evocation; baptism; happiness; monasticism; literature; writer

Summary/Abstract: Essential writer and theologian, N. Steinhardt is one of the most interesting Romanian intellectual fi gures after the Second World War. Being politically detained by the socialistic dictatorial regime and Jewish by birth, he receives his baptism in prison, thus fi nding in Orthodoxy the true spiritual support to overcome the hardships of his mundane penance. After his sentence, he becomes a monk in Rohia monastery, in Transylvania, where he lives until his death, writing and publishing many literature and theology books. He has contact with many people of culture and artists – writers, philosophy professors, church fi gures – thus living in a context of moral purity and elevation. Their testimonies about him have been gathered in a volume of real documentary and evocative value, presented by this text, which, using the characterizations of those who knew him or who were close to him, draws a nice portrait in the context of that erA

  • Issue Year: VI/2012
  • Issue No: 08
  • Page Range: 29-33
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Romanian