The Life and Opinions of Zacharias Lichter

✍ Scribed by Calinescu, Matei

• Book ID: 109937351
• Publisher: New York Review Books
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 90 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781681371955

✦ Synopsis

A new translation of the only novel by lauded Romanian literary critic Matei Călinescu
It was the late 50s and the Communist regime of Romania was at its most punitively unforgiving when Matei Calinescu, who had just graduated form the University of Bucharest, conceived of Zacharias Lichter. "I must create a myth," he jotted in his diary, "and become its hero—that's my idea! ... [A] Judeo-German metaphysician, descended as if from the XVIIIth century (or that's how he likes to think of himself) [who talks] about responsibility, about a dialogue of purity with God, about perplexity facing the void." In the following years, Zacharias Lichter, madman, fool, philsopher, and the weirdest of rebels without a cause would come to life in Calinescu's fictional account of his life and opinions, a book written for his private amusement since he assumed the censors would never permit its publication. He was wrong about that, however. The censors were completely...
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