[on
Mihail Sebastian's "Journal 1935-1944: The Fascist Years", first published in 1996] Unforgettable... Mihail Sebastian's hell is unique, even among European Jewish intellectuals because danger comes at him first...from his closest friends and colleagues....It is precisely his capacity to remain in touch with men and women who should have been his enemies that makes Sebastian an unparalleled diarist. [His] is a profoundly intelligent literary voice in the midst of political disempowerment, corruption, and carnage.