Contents

Foreword by Bryan Rennie, British historian of religions

GAUDEAMUS 1928

Part One

One: The Setting

Two: The Chairman

Four: Intermezzo

Five: The Professor

Seven: Works and Days

Eight: The Trip to the Monastery

Nine: Her Name is Nişka!

Ten: L’Heure Sexuelle

Eleven: My Friend Is In Love

Twelve: Storm at the Hermitage

Thirteen: Departure

Fourteen: End of the Holidays

Fifteen: Mysteries

Sixteen: The Newspaper Office

Seventeen: My Girlfriend in Autumn

Eighteen: Jassy

Nineteen: Petre’s Nemesis

Twenty: The Characters Judge the Author

Twenty-One: Death

Twenty-Two: Light in Rome

Twenty-Three: Meditation on Two Autumns

Part Two

Letter Thirteen

Afterword by Sorin Alexandrescu, Professsor of Cultural and Visual Studies at the University of Bucharest