Travel for the Dying: Ceauşescu’s Romania as Seen by Saul Bellow
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Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RIAS/article/view/16532" target="_blank" >https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RIAS/article/view/16532</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.31261/rias.16532" target="_blank" >10.31261/rias.16532</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Travel for the Dying: Ceauşescu’s Romania as Seen by Saul Bellow
Original language description
Saul Bellow (1915-2005) travelled to Bucharest in December, 1978, to assist his Romanian-born wife who wished to attend to her dying mother. He experienced Bucharest for the first time and realistically conveyed his wife’s humiliating experience with the Securitate of Ceauşescu’s regime in the novel The Dean’s December (1982). This contribution will underscore the anxiety Bellow experienced writing the novel, leading him to pre-emptive self-censorship, undermining to some extent his brief look inside communist Romania and its people during its repressive years. Bellow followed that novel up 18 years later with a pronounced anti-Romanian take in Ravelstein (2000) in which, among other themes, takes up the youthful fascist past of his former university colleague, Mircea Eliade. Ravelstein is revealed as a cruel novel impugning a few stand-in Romanian characters, as Bellow exposes his thoroughly modified perspective on Romania.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60204 - General literature studies
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Review of International American Studies
ISSN
1991-2773
e-ISSN
1991-2773
Volume of the periodical
17
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
PL - POLAND
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
"161–175"
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105000278377