Octavian Paler
Octavian Paler
Octavian Palerwas a Romanian writer, journalist, politician in Communist Romania, and civil society activist in post-1989 Romania...
NationalityRomanian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth2 July 1926
CountryRomania
lenin seems stalin statues
The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.
sad-life inability emptiness
There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live ...
sad-life dies
We start to die when we no longer have the power to choose.
acute caught form inferno malady repression specific states taken
The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
came convinced dictator fall happiness met people streets tomorrow
After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other in the streets - convinced that tomorrow things would look different. Then came the many disappointments.