Publishing house Spandugino distinguished not only by the precision with which it selects published authors, but also by the quality and elegance of the presentation of the product called a book. Has several author’s series, including one devoted to the linguist Sanda Holopentia. Whose exceptional professional development began in Bucharest, at a research institute (and she was accepted there with difficulty due to allegedly serious problems with documents – she was the daughter of an intellectual who died in communist prisons), and ended after 1980 in the United States. From 1981 to 2010, Sanda Holopentia worked at Brown University, where she is currently a professor emeritus. He published more than 50 volumes of linguistics, literary semiotics, anthropology, participated in reports and conferences, wrote a lot. Several titles have already appeared in the mentioned author’s series. Including dedicated to new methods of approach to the theater. In its dual capacity as a text intended for presentation and performance. I wrote about him in time.

Here he is in 2023, the same publishing house Spandugino reprint vol Our everyday life. Originally published in 2009 Old yard.

It would be too little and inaccurate if I said it in Our everyday life we would find an exclusively secret dossier or, please, information tracking (now known as DUI) of the sociologist Anton Holopentii. In fact, the book, as the title clearly shows, is the story of the life of an entire family in times of terror. That is, between 1948 and 1950, when the Securitate persecuted the sociologist, and the results of the persecution were materialized in informative notes sent daily, as well as in the transcripts of telephone conversations of all members of the Holopentius family. Including, at that time, minors Sanda and Dan Holopentia.

All kinds of troubles, characteristic of the times after the war and after the forced seizure of power by the communists, endless shortages, life rationalized to the purchase of staple foods on the menu, fears that all Romanians faced, were added fears arising from the guilt of being an intellectual. Anton Holopentia was guilty not only of taking over the leadership of the Institute of Statistics after the removal of Sabin Manuel from this position, but also of knowing a certain Bethea, who became undesirable as the communist leader Lucretsiu Petrashkanu (he was about to prepare to flee the country) as the wife of a sociologist. Professor Štefania Holopentsia, who survived the terror placing. The party could arbitrarily decide whether to grant professorships to professors who had become undesirable. If he will entrust them with tasks. Or that you weren’t asked to handle something (like subscribing to Spark) was a bad sign. He could intervene at any moment compression

Sociologist Anton Holopentia was monitored for 123 days. One period is only during the day, the other during the day and at night. Not being guilty of anything, even though he felt worthless, even though he was aware that the sword of Damocles was on him, Anton Holopentia lived, became active, and behaved normally. His life was divided between work at the institute and family affairs, and after his illegal dismissal – between visiting the academic library and family life.

It seems that this normality also got the guards thinking, as many of the notes detail that the one named either AG or, later, Gallop, went away okay. It was normal for the same guards that the Holopentius family would try to take theirs breadthe one he didn’t happen to find on the card was also normal when the former university professor had to retrain as a baker.

Sanda Holopentsia was not content to merely prepare for print what she found in relevant tracking files or selective phone records. Nor was he content merely to create some footnotes. Lyrics Security added their texts. I mean broad comments. Most often educational. Our everyday life thus it became, at least subtly, a memoir.

In this way, we learn that the sociologist was detained not at home, but in the library. We also learn that this news was brought to Stefania Holopentia by an elliptical messenger. That the prisoner Anton Holopentia wrote countless letters to his relatives, which never arrived. They were found after 1989. We will also learn how Stefania Holopentia received the terrible news of her husband’s death. And that in the 1960s, Stefania Holopentsia took measures to find out the details, as well as to rehabilitate the person who was killed without the slightest fault.

The testimony is also strengthened by the fact that Sanda Holopentsia stubbornly sought and found the testimony given by Anton Holopentsia Securitatsia during the investigation. _ Continue reading the article on Contributors.ro