![]() ![]() ![]() Even amongst his friends Sebastian was seen as an outsider. He had a number of novels and stories published – including For Two Thousand Years – yet his timing was tragic a Jew at the time when Europe, and Romania, saw an increase in anti-Semitism and the rise of fascism. ![]() Mihail Sebastian is a very important writer, one of Romania’s finest and yet, possibly, lesser-known.īorn Iosif Mendel Hechter in 1907 to a Jewish family living in the town of Brăila on the Danube, Sebastian studied law in Bucharest before being attracted to literary circles and the ideas of intellectual groups (which included Mircea Eliade). I will speak of a land that is mine, and for her I will risk appearing ridiculous, and I will love that which I am not allowed to love. ![]()
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