Volume 48, Number 15 · October 4, 2001

Witness to Fascism

By Peter Gay
Journal, 1935–1944
by Mihail Sebastian,translated from the Romanian by Patrick Camiller, with an introduction by Radu Ioanid

Ivan R. Dee, 641 pp., $36.00

Early in 1935, the Romanian writer Mihail Sebastian—journalist, playwright, novelist, literary critic—decided to start a diary. He was twenty-eight. The first entry, dated February 12, hints at the events that preoccupied him.



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