Gheorghiu, Constantin, Virgil The Man Who Travelled by Himself Translation from French by Gheorghita Ciocioi Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu (1916 – 1992) was born in Razboieni, Neamt county. He studied philosophy and theology at the Universities of Bucharest and Heidelberg. In the year 1940 he was awarded the Royal Poetry Prize, for his book Calligraphy on Snow. In 1942, he was appointed legation secretary at the Cultural Relations Department within Romania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As he opposed the communist regime, he settled in France in 1948. His novel The 25th Hour established his reputation in the free world; however, the discovery of a work he had published during the war, supporting the reacquisition of Bessarabia, entailed a series of violent attacks in the Occidental press. He justified his stance in another novel – The Man Who Travelled By Himself - written after his stay in the South America. On May 23rd, 1963, C.V. Gheorghiu was ordained a priest of the Romanian Orthodox Church in Paris, and he was elevated at the rank of stavrophore in June 1966. His true calling was, however, the literary one. Many scholars deem the novel The Man Who Travelled by Himself – now published for the first time in Romania – the best of C.V. Gheorghiu’s works, translated into tens of languages. Format: 13 x 20 cm; 294 p. ISBN: 978-973-136-164-2 «« back