Cel mai iubit dintre pământeni

Cel mai iubit dintre pământeni

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name = The Most Beloved of Earthlings
title_orig = Cel mai iubit dintre pământeni
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author = Marin Preda
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country = Romania
language = Romanian
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genre = Novel
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release_date = 1980
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media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
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"Cel mai iubit dintre pământeni" ( _ro. The Most Beloved of Earthlings) is the last, and perhaps most elaborate, novel by the Romanian author Marin Preda. Written in 1980, it is an intricate fresco of Communist Romania and the horrors of Stalinism era. The book's overt depiction of political repression at an early stage of Communist rule was allowed to pass through censorship following the change in tone to more nationalist and anti-Soviet attitudes under Nicolae Ceauşescu.

A screen version of the book [http://www.cinemagia.ro/movie.php?movie_id=1241] , directed by Şerban Marinescu and starring Ştefan Iordache in the role of Petrini, was released in 1992.

Plot summary

A long epic, written in first-person, "Cel mai iubit..." is the life-story confession of a prisoner waiting for his trial. Victor Petrini, a promising intellectual in the 1950s and a lecturer in Philosophy, seduces his best friend's wife, Matilda, who eventually becomes his wife. Nonetheless, and despite the birth of their daughter, the sexual attraction between them is exhausted shortly after their wedding. Victor is arrested by the repressive secret police (the Securitate), wrongly accused of espionage, and sentenced to prison and forced labor - the verdict constitutes a brutal end to all his projects and ideals.

During his several-year-long confinement, at first in the Romanian version of the Gulag, then on a lead mine in the Northern Carpathians, he is divorced and forsaken by his wife, and hardens his character in order to survive. Eventually, he even manages to attack and kill one of the torturers engaged in his re-education (a crime which is successfully hidden from the authorities).

Once released, Petrini has to start back from zero. He gets a job as pest controller (killing rats) and accommodates to a new, proletarian and suburban existence. A few years later, he manages to obtain employment as a bookkeeper in a state-owned company, where he meets Suzy, with whom he falls in love. Shortly after, in self-defence, he kills Suzy's ex-husband by throwing him out from a cable railway, and has to return to jail.

References

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External links

*imdb title|id=0106534|title=Cel mai iubit dintre pamînteni
* [http://www.ici.ro/romania/ro/cultura/literatura.html Romanian literature]


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