Intellectuals and Fascism in Interwar Bucharest: The Criterion Association

Bejan, Cristina A.

ISBN 10: 3030201643 / ISBN 13: 9783030201647

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

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323 pages. 8.25x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Intellectuals and Fascism in Interwar Bucharest: The Criterion Association
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3030201643
• ISBN 13: 9783030201647
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.73 kilograms

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Synopsis

2021 International Book Award finalist in Education/Academic and History: General categories. In 1930s Bucharest, some of the country's most brilliant young intellectuals converged to form the Criterion Association. Bound by friendship and the dream of a new, modern Romania, their members included historian Mircea Eliade, critic Petru Comarnescu, Jewish playwright Mihail Sebastian and a host of other philosophers and artists. Together, they built a vibrant cultural scene that flourished for a few short years, before fascism and scandal splintered their ranks. Cristina A. Bejan asks how the far-right Iron Guard came to eclipse the appeal of liberalism for so many of Romania's intellectual elite, drawing on diaries, memoirs and other writings to examine the collision of culture and extremism in the interwar years. The first English-language study of Criterion and the most thorough to date in any language, this book grapples with the complexities of Romanian intellectual life in the moments before collapse.

About the Author

Cristina A. Bejan is an Oxford DPhil and a Rhodes and Fulbright scholar. She has held fellowships at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Georgetown University and the Woodrow Wilson Center.