Ion Vianu

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Ion Vianu

Ion Vianu (born April 15, 1934 in Bucharest) is a Romanian writer and psychiatrist, who has lived in Switzerland since 1977. He is the son of literary critic Tudor Vianu and his wife, Elena.

He first studied

classical philology for two years (1952-1954) as a kind of "self-imposed exile into another world", as he calls it, before studying medicine.[1]

Dissident

Ion Vianu was one of those who signed

Radio Free Europe, discussing attempts to use psychiatry as a form of repression.[5]

After the

1989 Revolution, he became actively involved in the reform of the system of psychiatric treatment in Romania to bring it up to world standards. Vianu, together with his friend Matei Călinescu
, published an autobiographical volume, Amintiri în dialog ("Remembrances in Dialogue").

Writings

Ion Vianu's writings include memoires, novels and critical essays.

He published the novels Caietele lui Ozias (in 2004) and Vasiliu, foi volante (in 2006), both being part of the cycle Arhiva trădarii şi a mâniei (the Archive of Treason and Wrath), dealing with Romanian society during the

Matei Caragiale
. Another volume of critical essays "Apropieri" (Approaches), was published in 2011.

The novel "Vasiliu, foi volante" was translated in Spanish by Ioana Zlotescu in 2010 under the title Vasiliu, hojas sueltas (Aletheia Publishing House).

"Amor intellectualis" was awarded with a few prizes, among them Book of the year 2010 by the "România Literara" magazine. În 2012 it appeared in Spanish, translated by Victor Ivanovici and Susanna Vásquez (Miguel Gomez ediciones, Malaga)

References

  1. Romania literara. Archived from the original
    on September 24, 2015. Retrieved November 3, 2014.
  2. ^ "Doctor Ion Vianu receives award for active resistance to communism and for solidarity with Charter 77". 13 June 2014. Retrieved November 3, 2014.
  3. Neue Zurcher Zeitung
    . Retrieved November 3, 2014.
  4. ^ "Omul zilei - Ion Vianu" (in Romanian). jurnalul.ro. 17 June 2014. Archived from the original on 3 November 2014. Retrieved November 3, 2014.
  5. ^ "Political Psychiatry in Communist Romania". Radio Romania International. 20 October 2014. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
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