Flying Against the Arrow

"An exciting book, extremely inquisitive, sparkingly elegant and always freshingly invigorating... I would certainly buy the book and strongly recommend it." Mihaela Lidia Irimia, University of Bucharest, Romania

Translated from the best selling Romanian edition, Flying against the Arrow is the first in a new series, Central European Library of Ideas. Quasi-autobiographical, the book describes the life of an intellectual living under extreme political conditions, paying particular attention to the 'unbearable 80s'. The book vividly portrays the difficulties encountered by a young intellectual trying to shape himself under the oppressive Ceausescu regime and provides a stark depiction of a man's intellectual suffocation under hard-line socialist rule. The book's overall significance is therefore far more wide-ranging than just Romania or the 1980s.


1st Quarter 2000
280 pages