This event forced me to finish reading the third volume of Alexander Mironescu’s diary – see Wonderful silence. Diary. 1970-1972 yearsPublishing house Humanitas, Bucharest, 2023 – precisely in those days when the scandal related to the serial injustices against the life and descendants of the engineer Gheorghe Ursu reached its peak. That is, after the CCJ concluded that under communism the crime committed by the guards was perfectly legal. And that it remains so even 33 years after the fall of the so-called regime of people’s democracy.

Reading the notations of Alexander Mironescu, an outstanding scientist, holder of two doctorates, the first obtained at the University of Bucharest, the second at the Sorbonne, a long-time professor of chemistry at the university, an active member of a well-known group burning bush a former political prisoner (1958-1963), notes in which he is irreconcilable with the system, with the regime, with politics and the first signs of the personality cult of Nicolae Ceausescu, with all that he predicts will bring with him the famous Theses since July 1971 I couldn’t help but make the comparison.

If Alexandre Mironescu was condemned for keeping a diary, that on its pages he opposed the order, that he did not come to terms with its deviations, that he felt the double game of Nicolae Ceausescu, who was pampered by the West in those years, more than likely, he would be arrested. And perhaps he himself would suffer the same fate as engineer Ursa in the last communist decade. I do not know what Professor Mironescu’s CNSAS file contains. However, I couldn’t be more convinced that he was. He remained active even in the last years of his life, cherishing his old relationships and friendships of the interwar period, regularly visiting the Church, believing in the values ​​of Orthodoxy, continuing to cherish ideals Burning Burningit was almost impossible for Alexander Mironescu not to own the title objective and not have part a DUI. Information tracking file. His research would be interesting, the publication could bring with it, I think, many surprises.

For now, I think we should be grateful to the publisher Humanitas and Marius Vasileanu for full editing magazine. The third volume of which was published on the 50th anniversary of Alexander Mironescu’s death. Which, as he himself writes in an entry dated September 7, 1971, manifested itself in the diary as a confessor. Confessor of personal life experience. In this capacity, Alexandru Mironescu revealed himself and showed full solidarity with the Christian confessors. This is why religious concerns are unmistakably present even in the last years of the diary’s life. Mironescu regularly visits the Church, visits the Cernika monastery as often as possible, listens without objecting, but also criticizes the broadcasts from Radio Free Europe ( Christendom), reads religious literature. A special place returns to the works of Teilhard de Chardin. On many pages Wonderful silence, chemist, scientist, critical intellectual, as Alexandra Mironescu would be called today, creates numerous reflections on religious topics. Whenever possible, he buys religious literature, especially from the West.

The same Alexandru Mironescu reads almost everything new that appears in Bucharest bookstores, he likes the poetry of Ioan Alexandru, he does not even miss volumes of literary criticism, he is strict with the works of Sherban Cioculescu (which he prefers to the works of Sherban Cioculescu). his son, Barbu Choculescu), notes interesting things about Volodymyr Strayna, is in close relations with N. Krajnich, closely follows the attempts to republish the old works of Ion Biberi, which now, in his old age, he reads with different eyes. Not exactly auspicious. He is trying to self-publish his novel tease, first published in 1939, he knocks on the doors of publishing houses and publishers, but more often than not finds that his works are reserved for reprints. He often visits cinemas. He regularly goes to the theater. Evaluate with sufficient caveats King Lear Penciulescu, he did not like it at all Caligula from Cluj by Vlad Mugur, the show went to Bucharest on tour, he likes it Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, with Radu Beligan and Marcela Rusu. He is familiar with exhibitions, especially painting exhibitions, he also has friends among artists, but this friendship does not affect his insight and criticality, he regularly goes to concerts. And, almost unbelievably, no edition is missed Golden deer, to which he notices a qualitative decline, also due to the ever-increasing political involvement. In all. In organization, selection of Romanian participants, in refereeing.

Alexandru Mironescu carefully observes and comments on the growing interest in what is happening in Romania by Eugene Ionesco, he is a faithful listener of cultural programs from RELATIONSHIP Monica Lovinescu. An old acquaintance from youth. He comments on the supply shortages that worsened after the catastrophic flood of the spring of 1970. At first, he is reluctant to the appearance of the new TNB building, he does not like what he calls it angina. .

Foreign policy comments occupy a special place in the magazine. Alexandra Mironescu appreciates Richard Nixon (but fines him for his indulgence in the domestic politics of Nicolae Ceausescu), after the suppression of the Prague Spring, watches how Brezhnev imposes his doctrine of limited sovereignty, does not believe in Russian, with great reluctance perceives the independence shown by Nicolae Ceausescu towards them. He is also not indifferent to the events in Egypt or Cuba, so one cannot pay more attention to the politics of Israel. Just as it is with China or Sino-American relations.

In an article recently published by An old dilemma, Andrii Pleshu admitted that he does not have high hopes for the extent to which the name of Alexander Mironescu will be familiar to the younger generation. This is despite the fact that after 1989 Mironescu’s works from the interwar period were republished, as well as his unpublished works. Reading magazine it is itself a chance given to knowledge. – Read the entire article and comment on Contributors.ro