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Nicolae Breban (born on February 1, 1934, Baia Mare, Romania) is a Romanian novelist and essayist.

Biography

He is the son of Vasile Breban, a Greek Catholic priest in the village of Recea, Maramureş County. His mother, Olga Constanţa Esthera Breban, born Böhmler, descended from a family of German merchants who emigrated from Alsace Lorraine. In 1951, he was expelled from school on account of his social origin when in the last but one grade at the „Coriolan Brediceanu” High School in Lugoj. He worked as a civil servant in Oradea and finally passed the graduation exams at the „Oltea Doamna” High School. As he intended to study at the Polytechnics, he's to work first as an apprentice in the „23 August” Works in Bucharest. He enrols in the Faculty of Philosophy by „forging personal documents” as he candidly admits in Confesiuni violente (Violent Confessions). His reading of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer made him, in fact, suspicious in the eyes of Dean Athanase Joja. He made his literary debut in „Viaţa studenţească” (no. 5, May 1957), with the sketch Doamna din vis (The Lady in the Dream).
At the 10th Congress of the Romanian Communist Party, held between 6 12 August 1969, he was elected alternate member of the Central Committee. Beginning with issue no. 20 of 14 May 1970, he's editor in chief of the literary review „România literară”, around which he attracts some of Romania's most important writers. In 1971, the première of the movie Printre colinele verzi/Among the Green Hills (written and directed by Nicolae Breban), the film version of Sick Animals, took place. The communist authorities are quite annoyed by this picture, but it's nevertheless included in the official selection for the International Festival of Cannes. While in Paris, on this very occasion, Nicolae Breban remained shocked by the „July theses”, by means of which Nicolae Ceauşescu, following the Maoist model, was instating the Cultural Revolution. The writer publicly repudiated the cultural policy of the Romanian regime in a number of interviews published in the Western media, and, in protest, resigns his position as editor in chief of „România literară”. Back home, in 1972, the communist authorities regarded him as undesirable. He therefore underwent disregard, police watch and wasn't allowed to travel abroad until 1975, despite his being a German citizen beginning with this very year. Without actually becoming an exile (1986-1989), he lived mostly in Paris with his wife Cristina. He returned to Romania and in 1990 he launched a new series of the literary review „Contemporanul Ideea europeană”. On the 24th of October 1997, he became corresponding member of the Romanian Academy.

Published works

Novels

Francisca, 1965
În absenţa stăpânilor (When the Masters are Away), 1966
Animale bolnave (Sick Animals), 1968
Îngerul de gips (The Plaster Angel), 1973
Bunavestire (The Annunciation), 1977
Don Juan, 1981
Drumul la zid (The Back to the Wall), 1984
Pândă şi seducţie (Still hunt and Seduction), 1991
Amfitrion (Amphitryon), vol. I, Demonii mărunţi/The Lesser Demons, vol. II, Procuratorii/The Procurators, vol. III, Alberta, 1994
Ziua şi noaptea (The Day and the Night), 1998
Voinţa de putere (The Will to Power), 2001
Puterea nevăzută (The Unseen Power), 2004
Jiquidi, 2007

Novels translated in other languages

When the Masters are Away (Ebbi en Kvinna med karaktär), translated by Barbro Andersson's Swedish, René Coeckelberghs' Publishing House, 1975

When the Masters are Away (En l'absence des maîtres), translated by Virgil Tănase's French, Paris, Publishing House Flammarion, 1983

Annunciation (L'Annonciation), translated by Dorina Radu and Marcel Péju, Paris, Publishing House Flammarion, 1985

Essays, diaries

Confesiuni violente (Violent Confessions), 1994

Riscul în cultură (Taking Chances in Culture), 1997

Spiritul românesc în faţa unei dictaturi (The Romanian Spirit Facing Dictatorship), 1997

Stricte amintiri literare (Rigorous Literary Memoirs), 2001

Sensul vieţii (Memorii I-IV) (The Meaning of Life), 2003-2007

Friedrich Nietzsche, Maxime comentate (Commented Morals), 2004

Vinovaţi fără vină (Innocent Culprits), 2006

Plays

Bătrâna doamnă şi fluturele (The Old Lady and the Butterfly), 1984

Culoarul cu şoareci (A Corridor Ridden with Mice), 1990 (the première of the play is performed at „Vasile Alecsandri” National Theater in Iaşi in 1993)

Ursul şi ştiuca (The Bear and the Pike), 2000

Poems

Elegii parisiene (Parisian Elegies), 1992

Translation

Rainer Maria Rilke, Duino Elegies, 2006

Filmography

(as screenplay writer)

Răutăciosul adolescent (The Nasty Teenager) (regia / directed by: Gheorghe Vitanidis), 1969 (as screenplay writer and director)

Printre colinele verzi (Among the Green Hills, the film version of Sick Animals), 1971

Awards

The „Ion Creangă” Award of the Romanian Academy (1965)

The Romanian Writers' Union Award (1968)

The Romanian Writers' Union Award (1994)

The Romanian Writers' Union Award „Opera Omnia” (2000)Further Information

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