Sebastian, Mon Frere...Scrisoare Catre Un Frate Mai Mare by Gabriel Liiceanu Letter To An Older Brother

 Sebastian, Mon Frere...Scrisoare Catre Un Frate Mai Mare by Gabriel Liiceanu

Letter To An Older Brother

Another version of this note and thoughts on other books are available at:

-              https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEVa4_CsRStSBBDo4uJWT8BSWtTTn0N1E  and   http://realini.blogspot.ro/


After The Forbidden Door, I had the chance to read another emotional account from the same author.
Gabriel Liiceanu address the Jewish community and Mihail Sebastian in particular with a declaration of affinity.

Sebastian, Mon Frere translates as Sebastian, My Brother.
And then it is repeated in the title:

-          Letter To An Older Brother

There are a number of similarities and both The Jewish people and the Romanians have suffered at the hands of tyranny.
Granted, the ordeal of The Chosen People may have a thousand years or more over the local pain.

But there was a terrible life for both communities.
The author talks about his experience in the communist regime.

The version I heard in the car is printed on an audio cd, read by the philosopher himself.
And he is a gifted performer.

In University, candidates like Gabriel Liiceanu were persecuted.
He did not have what they called "origine sanatoasa" aka a healthy origin.

They did not mean by that someone who had tuberculosis or some other dreadful disease in the family.
Much worse for the commissars, those with unhealthy origin were raised in families who had intellectuals, former nobles, boyars or whatever the stupid class struggle designed as enemies of the people.

It could even be peasants who opposed the confiscation of their land for the Communist farms.
It has been much more difficult for one of the greatest minds that we have here to get into the Faculty of Philosophy.

Later on, he would continue his studies at Languages.
His mentor, Constantin Noica had wanted him to study Old Greek and Latin.

More episodes are evoked that support this rapprochement between the author and Sebastian.
Or in broader terms, the same casting out, segregation, discrimination that was the cause of such terror for Jewish people could be encountered and compared locally.

In 1990 and afterwards, the miners, secret service agents and some Neanderthal men descended upon Bucharest.

Intellectuals, especially prominent ones like Gabriel Liiceanu were targeted.
They belonged to an inferior race in the minds of the barbarians that were thirsty for blood.

They were manipulated and they wanted to catch and kill the philosopher and many others.
Like the Nazis who were tracing the Jewish people to kill them, those Neanderthal men wanted to and did crash the skulls of thinkers.

One of their slogans was

Noi muncim, nu gandim aka
We work, we don't think

Alas, so true.

And to think that after all these years we are coming back, so close to the same Stone Age.
The government controlled by the descendants of the same guys who brought the Neanderthal squads to the capital has just freed all the corrupt politicians from jail.
Huge demonstrations have taken place and will be happening tonight.

Gabriel Liiceanu has spoken yet again in favor of democracy, ethics, morals, values and an end to a vile, despicable attitude .


We are governed by "The Red Plague"

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