THE DARK HOURS OF ROMANIAN HISTORY

Marta Caraion and Cătălin Mihuleac each explore, in their own way, the darker chapters of Romanian history. In Géographie des ténèbres. Bucarest – Transnistria – Odessa, 1941-1981 (Fayard), Marta Caraion traces the familial and collective history of the Romanian Holocaust, from the Odessa pogrom to exile in Switzerland, giving voice to three generations of women and restoring the historical depth of hundreds of thousands of victims. Cătălin Mihuleac, in Les Oxenberg & les Bernstein (trans. Marily Le Nir, Noir sur Blanc), combines humor, folk magic, and family secrets to illuminate the fractures of memory. A dialogue between history, literature, and memory, balancing fiction and documentary rigor.

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