Lutter contre les fondamentalismes politiques
Virgil Gheorghiu au cœur de la tourmente totalitaire d’après ses Mémoires
Fighting Political Fundamentalisms: Virgil Gheorghiu amid the Totalitarian Upheaval in His Memoirs
Author(s): Jean-François PetitSubject(s): History, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Special Historiographies:, Theology and Religion, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Institutul National pentru Studiul Totalitarismului
Keywords: Virgil Gheorghiu; violence; political fundamentalism; Nazism; communism; resistance to totalitarianism; orthodoxy; Romania;
Summary/Abstract: Among the opponents of totalitarianism in Romania, history has remembered the name of Virgil Gheorghiu (1916-1992). Opposed to communism, he sought refuge in France in 1948, and he built a vast novelistic fresco, now considered a 'classic' of anti-totalitarian literature. But his memoirs also make it possible to grasp the essence of the totalitarian phenomenon, from a perspective different but complementary to his novels, in particular The 25th Hour.
Journal: Arhivele Totalitarismului
- Issue Year: XXXIV/2026
- Issue No: 1-2
- Page Range: 77-88
- Page Count: 12
- Language: French
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