“I wished that [my interrogator] would carry a sack with all his dead. I wished his hacked-off hair would smell like a newly mown graveyard whenever he sat at the barber’s. I wished his crimes would reek when he sat down at the table with his grandson after work. That the boy would be disgusted by the fingers that were feeding him cake”.
(Herta Müller, (b. 1953, Banat, Romania) “The Land Of Green Plums”)
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Dictionary of Romanian Quotations – Letter “M”
November 12th, 2016 · Comments Off on Dictionary of Romanian Quotations – Letter “M” · Books, Communist Prisons, Diaspora, Famous People, History, International Media, OPINION, PEOPLE, POLITICAL DETENTION / DISSENT, quotations, Translations
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Voices & Shadows of the Carpathians – an Anthology of Romanian Thought
June 23rd, 2009 · 4 Comments · Books, Diaspora, PEOPLE, Translations
Voices & Shadows of the Carpathians …………………………………………………………………………………….. An Anthology of Romanian Thought – selected and introduced by Constantin Roman. POSTFACE: A Conspiracy of Silence Now, I am a person who likes simple words. It is true, I had realised before this journey that there was much evil and injustice in the world that I had […]
