Necunoscutul scriitor Virgil Ierunca

As is known, during the communist period, it was not allowed - officially - to talk about exile or to write about the books or the work of writers who left the country. Even their names were forbidden. If their works were not republished today, if we did not write about them, it would mean knowingly participating in what Virgil Ierunca called the "pedagogy of forgetting" and even the "class will of forgetting". That is why this book (the second in the "Books of Exile" collection) (re)brings attention to one of the most important representatives of exile, the writer Virgil Ierunca, but perceived by the general public especially as a journalist, as the "voice" of Free Europe. "You are a great writer", Mircea Eliade had written to Ierunca after reading some fragments of his Journal. Following the appreciation of Eliade, we proposed in this volume that, in addition to (re)updating some data on the life and activity of Virgil Ierunca, in the historical and social context after 1944, we would (also) draw attention to the literary value of his writing. Mihaela Albu, Dan Anghelescu