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A Document without Precedent: The Last Book

Author(s): Monica Lovinescu
Subject(s): Review
Published by: Fundaţia România literară
Keywords: Anton Golopentia; trial against Lucretiu Patrascanu;

Summary/Abstract: Monica Lovinescu presents here Sanda Golopentia's book dedicated to her father, the famous interwar Romanian scholar Anton Golopentia who died in the communist dungeons. Intending to use him as a witness in the trial against Lucretiu Patrascanu the secret police arrested and interrogated Anton Golopentia .The inhuman treatment that lead to his death, the circumstances in which this happened are all revealed in declarations made various people involved in this affair. Presented in this last book, all these are meant to be a tribute the daughter paid to the memory of her father.

  • Issue Year: 2001
  • Issue No: 40
  • Page Range: 07
  • Page Count: 1
  • Language: Romanian