La vie comme un « roman » ou les mémoires d’un exilé « atypique » : Virgil Tănase – Un, deux, trois, la mort !

Novelist, playwright, essayist and stage director, Virgil Tănase is probably one of the most important dissenters in the Ceausescu-era and, at the same time, an outstanding figure of the intellectual elite that was exiled in France. “Asked” to leave Romania in 1977 by Bucarest’s dictatorial regime,...

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Main Author: Alina Crihana
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires du Midi 2013-08-01
Series:Diasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/diasporas/215
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description Novelist, playwright, essayist and stage director, Virgil Tănase is probably one of the most important dissenters in the Ceausescu-era and, at the same time, an outstanding figure of the intellectual elite that was exiled in France. “Asked” to leave Romania in 1977 by Bucarest’s dictatorial regime, this writer remains an active dissident in Paris and a “rebel” amongst exiled anticommunist activists. “Convicted of the crime of lese-majesty” against the Ceausescu clan, he was the target of a Securitate attack in May 1982 which was thwarted by the National Surveillance Directorate with Mitterrand’s support. Thirty years after the “Tănase affair”, its protagonist provides a “fictional” but authentic story through a “police and literary account” which discloses the intimate relationship between personal experience and history. Un, deux, trois, la mort! is a fascinating book on the situation of writers who face dictatorship, but also on the destiny of an “atypical” exile who proudly asserts his vocation as a writer above all other forms of dissent.
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spelling doaj.art-be56721f0d7045159a99befd160c07e12024-02-13T13:35:48ZengPresses Universitaires du MidiDiasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire1637-58232431-14722013-08-0122546610.4000/diasporas.215La vie comme un « roman » ou les mémoires d’un exilé « atypique » : Virgil Tănase – Un, deux, trois, la mort !Alina CrihanaNovelist, playwright, essayist and stage director, Virgil Tănase is probably one of the most important dissenters in the Ceausescu-era and, at the same time, an outstanding figure of the intellectual elite that was exiled in France. “Asked” to leave Romania in 1977 by Bucarest’s dictatorial regime, this writer remains an active dissident in Paris and a “rebel” amongst exiled anticommunist activists. “Convicted of the crime of lese-majesty” against the Ceausescu clan, he was the target of a Securitate attack in May 1982 which was thwarted by the National Surveillance Directorate with Mitterrand’s support. Thirty years after the “Tănase affair”, its protagonist provides a “fictional” but authentic story through a “police and literary account” which discloses the intimate relationship between personal experience and history. Un, deux, trois, la mort! is a fascinating book on the situation of writers who face dictatorship, but also on the destiny of an “atypical” exile who proudly asserts his vocation as a writer above all other forms of dissent.https://journals.openedition.org/diasporas/215
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La vie comme un « roman » ou les mémoires d’un exilé « atypique » : Virgil Tănase – Un, deux, trois, la mort !
Diasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire
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title_short La vie comme un « roman » ou les mémoires d’un exilé « atypique » : Virgil Tănase – Un, deux, trois, la mort !
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