(A)symmetries. Adriana Georgescu and Sorana Gurian: The Comparison of two Memories

Abstract

Humanly distant, Adriana Georgescu, secretary of General Rădescu, and Sorana Gurian, member of the literary group Sburător, apparently had in common just the journalistic practice and the anti-Nazi/anticommunist activity. However, at the beginning of the fifties, they published in France two memoirs that describe two of the “-isms” that bent Romania in the twentieth century. Their personal (and painful) experience took shape respectively in the volumes Au commencement était la fin. La dictature rouge à Bucarest (Hachette, Paris 1951) and Les mailles du filet. Mon journal de Roumanie (Calmann-Lévy, Paris 1950) that denounce the (ill)concealed violence beyond the Iron Curtain.