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The censor's notebook : a novel

Uniform Title
Caiet de cenzor. English
Title
The censor's notebook : a novel / Liliana Corobca ; translated by Monica Cure.
ISBN
9781644211502
1644211505
9781838415938
1838415939
9781644211519
Publication
New York, NY : Seven Stories Press, [2022]
Physical Description
486 pages ; 21 cm
Notes
Translated from the Romanian.
Summary
"A fascinating narrative of life in communist Romania, and a thought-provoking meditation on the nature of literature and censorship. The Censor's Notebook opens with an exchange of letters between "Liliana Corobca" and Emilia Codrescu, long the female chief of the Secret Documents Office in Romania's feared State Directorate of Media and Printing--the government branch responsible for Censorship. Codrescu had been responsible for the burning and shredding of the censors' notebooks, viewed as State secrets but prior to fleeing the country in 1974 she had stolen one such notebook. Now, forty years later, she makes the notebook available to Liliana for the newly instituted Museum of Communism. The work of a censor--a job about which it is forbidden to talk--is revealed in this notebook, which discloses not only the structures of the institution of censorship but also the life behind the scenes for one of those deciding the fate of books, with their distress, outrage, humor and guilt. It's just five months in the life of censor Filofteia Moldovean, but they are so tightly packed with events that they give a sense of this mysterious institution as a world unto itself"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 07, 2023
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