Dinu Pillat (en)

“15 years hard labour for the crime of treason against the Fatherland”: Prisoner no. 344/1962  In the file P/336 “Constantin Noica and others”, volume I, we read from the “indictment” on page 271 (14 April 1959) “Pillat C. received from abroad and smuggled into the country materials of a highly counter-revolutionary nature, in which he incited action against the regime and propagated the restoration of the old capitalist regime in the country, etc. …ț distributed them among elements hostile to the regime, with whom he held highly hostile discussions, and …ț in which he praised the Western way of life […]

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Dinu Pillat (1921-1975), son of the poet Ion Pillat and great-grandson of the Brătians, is an important author of novels, monographs and literary studies, among which those on Ion Barbu and Dostoevsky remain a reference. Ion Pillat’s mother, Maria, was one of the seven children of I.C. Brătianu, the historian who fought for the unification of the Principalities and the accession to the throne of Al. I. Cuza (1856), Carol of Hohenzolern, who became the king who laid the foundations of modern Romania, supported the start of the war against the Turks in 1877, which led to the country’s independence. […]

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A young man rich in spirit, he came from the famous family of the Brătians. Sensitive and generous by nature, he did everything wholeheartedly. A fine intellectual, he was a good critic and was an assistant to George Călinescu. He wrote a novel inspired by those difficult years, full of tragic events for the country (1930-1940), a world he did not know, with which he had no contact, but which enchanted him with its spiritual and dramatic intensity. For this draft novel, he and those who read it were condemned as idealists, mystics and legionaries. In prison, he stood out […]

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