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Flying Against the Arrow
An Intellectual in Ceausescu's Romania

Horia-Roman Patapievici, University of Bucharest, Romania


Translated from the best selling Romanian edition, Flying against the Arrow is a quasi-autobiographical book that describes the life of an intellectual living under extreme political conditions, paying particular attention to the 'unbearable 80s'. The book vividly portrays the difficulties encountered by a young intellectual trying to shape himself under the oppressive Ceausescu regime and provides a stark depiction of a man's intellectual suffocation under hard-line socialist rule. The book's overall significance is therefore far more wide-ranging than just Romania or the 1980s.

Flying against the Arrow is expected to shape and fuel current Central European debates, with other publications that will constitute a series of Central European Library of Ideas. The most innovative and challenging titles will be selected that set the intellectual agendas of whole societies, or which take issue with central concerns in the region. The series will be of interest to anyone concerned with the current ideologies shaping the future of Central and Eastern Europe.

"Patapievici begins his preface by saying 'I do not know how others kept their integrity under communism, but I was saved by my friends... We personified a lively counterculture, razor-sharp and tenacious of life...'

This work provides a fascinating glimpse of a subterraneous cultural life in Romania under Ceausescu - a true 'flight against the arrow' - as well as a series of valuable insights regarding culture, philosophy, and the way in which humans create meaning. As such it is highly recommended." - Slavic & East European Journal


2003
280 pages
ISBN 978-963-9116-57-3 cloth $55.00 / €46.95/ £34.95

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