PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR: MORE ROMANIAN TIES
PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR: MORE ROMANIAN TIES

Summary/Abstract: The article aims at recuperating a certain image of Romania, as seen through the eyes of a writer who spent almost half a decade in our country, right before WWII, yet he left extremely few written pages on his life and experiences while here. Therefore we resorted to Fermor’s correspondence with various friends he had then made, among them Michel Alexis ‘Bishi’ Catargi, a member of the Catargi aristocratic family. Family history is employed as a means to deepen the understanding of personal history, within the context of the communist regime, while relating the private and public epitext with the literary text in order to highlight the interplay between memory and nostalgia. Most of the documents we have used are a gift from the distinguished historian Dr. Georgeta Filitti, whom we would like to thank once again for the generosity and the opportunity provided.

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