One more thought for all the communists and Castro/Stalin/Kim Jog Il fans out there:

You morons, Monica’s mother, Ecaterina, was imprisoned on trumped-up charges, so common in commie countries, of “collabaorating with foreign powers”, was tortured in prison, was offered amnesty if she could convince Monica to return to commie Romania from France, where she had become an outspoken critic of communism. Mother refused. She died in prison. She was in her 70s. She was thrown, nazi/commie style, in a common grave.
The prosecutor who “managed” Ecaterina’s case moved into her and Monica’s apartment after Ecaterina’s death (nice, on a major Bucharest boulevard) where he apparently still lives in his secure old age, huge pension from the former commies.

I truly wonder how Monica Lovinescu managed to keep her sanity through all of this, plus Ceausescu’s attempt to shut her up with the help of a bunch of PLO (Palestinian Liberation Army)thugs in the seventies that nearly killed her.
Yet she couldn’t be silenced.

She loved music. She and Virgil couldn’t go through a day without their Mozart and Brahms and Beethoven. They devided their waking hours between work and music.