Virgil Ierunca
Romanian literary critic, journalist, and poet, born Virgil Untaru. An anti-communist dissident who lived in exile in France, he was noted for his work with Radio Free Europe alongside his wife, Monica Lovinescu.
Books
This list of books are ONLY the books that have been ranked on the lists that are aggregated on this site. This is not a comprehensive list of all books by this author.
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1. Fenomenul Piteşti
A harrowing account of the Communist regime’s “re-education” experiment at Pitești Prison (1949–1951), where systematic torture, humiliation, and forced betrayal were used to annihilate identity, faith, and solidarity among political prisoners. Drawing on testimonies, it details the stages of demasking and the coercion of inmates to torture one another, exposing the apparatus that enabled it and reflecting on the experiment’s psychological devastation and enduring moral implications.