Gabriela Adameșteanu

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Gabriela Adameșteanu
Adameșteanu in 2013
Adameșteanu in 2013
Born (1942-04-02) April 2, 1942 (age 82)
Târgu Ocna, Romania
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • short story writer
  • essayist
  • journalist
Period1975–
GenreRealism

Gabriela Adameșteanu (Romanian pronunciation:

Revista 22
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Biography

Gabriela Adameșteanu was born in

Communist authorities and she had to work in a kindergarten. A brother of Mircea Adameșteanu's became a political prisoner of the Communist regime; another, the renowned archaeologist Dinu Adameșteanu
, had taken refuge in Italy.

Gabriela Adameșteanu lived much of her youth in

publishing house, and began contributing to major literary magazines (Viața Românească and România Literară). After 1983, she worked as an editor for Cartea Românească, where she made efforts to preserve literary standards in front of a new wave of censorship under the Nicolae Ceaușescu regime.[citation needed
]

She married Gheorghe-Mihai Ionescu and gave birth to a son, Mircea Vlad Ionescu, in 1968.

Drumul egal al fiecărei zile (The Equal Way of Every Day), a story alluding to

People's Republic of Poland, where she witnessed the mood encouraged by the visit of Pope John Paul II (according to her recollections, it was "a magic sentiment of human dignity").[2]

With Dimineață pierdută (Wasted Morning), a complex novel centered on an apparently banal conversation between two women, discreetly but fastidiously reconstructing the tragic end of the

Writers' Union prize and was confirmed as one of the most important Romanian authors of the 1980s. Wasted Morning was set to stage by Cătălina Buzoianu in 1987, becoming the center of interest at a time when the Ceaușescu regime had entered its more repressive phase.[3]

After the

Romanian Revolution of 1989, she resigned from her position at Cartea Românească. In 1990, she joined GDS, and became editor of its magazine, 22, the following year. For many years Adameșteanu has been and still is a member of the Romanian PEN center,[4] for some years as well served as president of it.[5]

Her other literary works include Vară-primăvară (a collection of short stories published in 1989), Obsesia politicii (interviews with post-1989 political figures, 1995), Cele două Românii (essays, 2000), and the 2003 novel Întâlnirea. She has translated into Romanian Guy de Maupassant's Pierre et Jean and Hector Bianciotti's Sans la miséricorde du Christ.[3]

Work

Adameșteanu's work, which has been described as realist and, alternatively, as "hyperrealist",[6] is noted for its portrayals of humanity decaying under the leveling pressure of mundane reality.[7] In this respect, critics have rated her literature among the major accomplishments of her generation (alongside the similarly themed novels and short stories of Norman Manea, Bedros Horasangian, Alexandru Papilian, and Mircea Nedelciu).[8]

Her powerful depictions of values becoming debased (under the pressure of

voices[9] (aspects of which include those of young civil servants who find themselves overwhelmed by mediocrity, daughters pressured by social priorities into not mourning their parents, and unhappily married women).[8] Adameșteanu's accuracy in expressing various patterns of speech and behavior has itself drawn acclaim.[9]

In 2000, she was awarded the Order of the Star of Romania, Officer rank.[10]

Notes

  1. ISBN 978-9-73849-121-2
    .
  2. ^ Adameșteanu, "Nu vă fie frică!"
  3. ^ a b Les Belles Etrangères
  4. ^ "Membri PEN ROMÂNIA /members of the Romanian PEN center". penromania.ro. 2020-10-31. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  5. ^ "Biography Gabriela Adameşteanu [ Romania ]". Archived from the original on 2012-02-13. Retrieved 2021-04-13.
  6. ^ Ioanid
  7. ^ Ioanid; Simuț
  8. ^ a b Simuț
  9. ^ a b Ioanid; Ionescu
  10. ^ "Decretul președintelui României nr. 524 din 1 decembrie 2000 privind conferirea unor decorații naționale personalului din subordinea Ministerului Culturii", lege5.ro (in Romanian), Monitorul Oficial, December 16, 2000

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