Mihail Sebastian: 6 books

Available in English for the first time, Mihail Sebastian’s classic 1934 novel delves into the mind of a Jewish student in Romania during the fraught years preceding World War II. This literary masterpiece revives the ideological debates of the interwar period through the journal of a Romanian...

Hailed as one of the most important portrayals of the dark years of Nazism, this powerful chronicle by the Romanian Jewish writer Mihail Sebastian aroused a furious response in Eastern Europe when it was first published. A profound and powerful literary achievement, it offers a lucid and finely shaded...

Mieux qu’un livre d’images ou de photographies le livre de Mihail Sebastian brosse un portrait de la France des années 1930. Sebastian fait surgir la permanence de la ville Lumière, par la description tour à tour passionnée, lucide, attendrie et ironique de ses écrivains, de ses peintres,...

Like Sándor Márai, Mihail Sebastian is a captivating Central European storyteller from the 1930s whose work is being rediscovered by new generations of readers Though the novel has been a bestseller in several countries and languages, this is the first time it, or any other novel by Sebastien, has been available in English

A rediscovered classic from the author of For Two Thousand Years, this remarkable novel presents nuanced snapshots of love in the early twentieth century. Stefan Valeriu, a young man from Romania who has just completed his medical studies in Paris, spends his vacation in the Alps, where he...

Romania, anni Venti. L’antisemitismo è sempre più diffuso e violento. Il protagonista, uno studente ebreo dell’Università di Bucarest, insieme ai colleghi correligionari subisce quotidianamente angherie e soprusi, un martirio che gli altri sposano quasi fosse un processo di redenzione, mentre...