Artist Spy Prisoner - Tomaziu, George
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NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS An anguished memoir of one man's political struggle and physical resilience. The Romanian artist George Tomaziu must have anticipated being imprisoned for monitoring German troop movements through Romania during the Second World War. He may also have imagined that if the Allies won, and if he somehow survived the brutalisation of captivity and torture, his personal fight against Fascism would be acknowledged by his liberated compatriots. It wasn't. Under the Communist government that came to power in late 1947, he was sent back to prison and stranded there, for 13 years,…mehr

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NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS An anguished memoir of one man's political struggle and physical resilience. The Romanian artist George Tomaziu must have anticipated being imprisoned for monitoring German troop movements through Romania during the Second World War. He may also have imagined that if the Allies won, and if he somehow survived the brutalisation of captivity and torture, his personal fight against Fascism would be acknowledged by his liberated compatriots. It wasn't. Under the Communist government that came to power in late 1947, he was sent back to prison and stranded there, for 13 years, in the most inhuman conditions. Against the odds, he survived. This is his story, translated from the French by Jane Reid, whose husband at the British Embassy in Bucharest managed to persuade the Romanians to allow Tomaziu, his wife and child to leave the country. Tomaziu settled in Paris, where he wrote this account but could not find a publisher for it. He died in 1990.
Autorenporträt
George Tomaziu (born 4 April, 1915 in Dorohoi; died 3 December, 1990 in Paris) was a Romanian painter, graphic artist, memorialist and poet. He was the godson of Romania's most celebrated composer and musician, Georges Enescu, who was married to Princess Cantacuzino and lived in a palace. Nothing in his early life suggested the toughness needed to withstand abuse. On the contrary, his artistic spirit expressed itself in a voracious bi-sexuality and hunger for pleasure. At one point during the war, he was artistic director of the Odessa Opera, but he also worked for the British secret services, transmitting information about German troops on the Eastern Front and in Romania. From the autumn of 1942 he was made a lieutenant and ran a group of collaborators, one of whom was Alexandru Balaci, a prominent literary figure and specialist in Spanish literature. Within two years Tomaziu had been arrested and put in Romania's most notorious prison under Romania's pro-Nazi government. Six years later, after the country had embraced Communism, he was sent back to prison and was kept there for thirteen years.