Was Lucian Boya what you could call a fashion historian of the last 30 years? I have a hard time formulating an answer. One is categorically even less. But in fact the story was more than certain.

First of all, because from 1997 until today, Professor Lucian Boya has published an unchanged number of books. Almost 50, some, most, in multiple editions. These are the volumes in which the author solved most of the relevant issues. From myths that had and maybe still have a purpose all over the world, but which here in our country, due to overuse and oversupply, don’t really have a very good effect on Romanian historiography and its perception in the world, to what is happening from Romania after 1989.

Lucian Boya, without hesitation, asked himself and answered aloud why the country also seems stubborn and as if we Romanians are also stubborn to be otherwise. One historian’s book focused on how it would be good to read Eminescu today, while another analyzed the effects that increasingly drastic climate change might have on the world, or a fact, at least on the face of it, positive, such as increased life expectancy. .

On several occasions, Professor Boya shared with us his thoughts on how democratic interwar Romania really was, stressing that the interwar period was beneficial primarily because of culture. Elsewhere I have read opinions about what the monarchs of Romania had in mind and what the chances would be of returning to this form of government today. However, Professor Lucian Boya is careful to state that he in no way claims to be an expert on shaping the future. Which, by the way, is even impossible to predict.

Elsewhere, a professor from Bucharest explained to his readers how the Union of 1918 was achieved, an achievement seen in the context of the Great War. and which cannot but be associated with the union of 1859. The moment after which the state called Romania appeared. A large real country project. Which, unfortunately, actually had no lines anymore.

The same historian urged to look at the appointees somewhat more realistically Germanophiles. Actually. intellectual personalities of high caliber, some of whom, like Slavici or Arghezi, paid the price in prison for daring to think differently than the majority. Professor Boya even had the audacity to put his finger on the wound, noting that the 1916 option in favor of the Entente had and still has funds in terms of the situation in Bessarabia and Unionist enthusiasm. The historian went even further, writing in black and white that Romania did not win, as we like to say, the First World War. The war was won by the Entente, America. What happened next was the result of our well-known luck. Luck, which in the case of Russia could not be to the liking of the Hungarians, hence their reluctance to participate in the celebrations on December 1.

A professor from Bucharest has written important and somewhat handy pages on what this means The tragedy of Germany and how it led to the start of the Second World War. About how much we, modern Romanians, come from Dacians and Romanians, and how much from communism. About how strange the history of Romanian Communism was and how the scientific mythology of Communism was applied in Romania. About how we adapted to communism, even dare we say we did it by understanding each other, negotiationas they say today, with this.

Lucian Boya also shared his views on inferiority complexes and baseless fears of Romanians about the country’s present. A gift that we are not very good at managing. In everything that Professor Boya wrote, the question arises as to whether there is a true story. Yes, there is, she was what happened to her. All this has been written about, but these works, even if they are the product of good will, are nothing more than representations of the past.

Lucian Boya was also his own biographer, the biographer of his life. Reminiscences of certain moments from the biography, supported by what could be read in Catherine Durandin’s book, led to the statement that Lucian Boya would make an excellent bodyguard.

Lucian Boya has been and continues to be one of the most prolific authors published by the publisher Humanitas. All books with his signature are there BEST SELLER– hatred It was only natural that they should arouse interest in the media, it was normal that Lucian Boy was invited for an interview. 32 of them are republished in the volume An unpleasant story. 32 interviews with Lucian Boya, Tom appeared in 2023 as different than everyone else Humanitas. I conclude from A word before even signed by the interviewee that the selection was made by him. The interviews are in the chronological order of their appearance in the press. Newspapers, magazines, websites, radio stations, less television. The order dictated by the appearance of the cards. The interviewers, all serious people, clearly masters of their craft, did not limit themselves to the historian’s questions What’s up, what he wrote and what else is written but they put to him questions which show that they read with the utmost attention the volumes under discussion. – Read the entire article and comment on Contributors.ro