Flying Against the Arrow

This work describes the life of a talented young man living under extreme political conditions, paying particular attention to the "unbearable 1980s". It portrays the difficulties encountered by a young intellectual trying to shape himself under the oppressive Ceauescu regime.

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The ‘unbearable 80s’, as the last decade of the Ceauşescu era has been called in Romania, are in the focus of this quasi-autobiographical work. The book vividly portrays the difficulties encountered by a young intellectual trying to shape himself under the oppressive regime and provides a stark depiction of a man’s intellectual suffocation under hard-line socialist rule.