Memoirs of Constantin Toiu

At the age of maturity, Constantin Toiu contemplates his life and feels the need to present readers the image of a life lived under communism. Freed from the pressure of the regime, the writer evaluates his own career and explains his creative path, intellectual adventure and spiritual development. Encouraged by the desire to recover the journalistic texts from „Literary Romania”, the articles from the volumes of essays Morsus diaboli, Caftane și cafteli, Răvașe din Kamceatka, the fragments from the notebooks and files found, which best show his evolution, Constantin Toiu gets to publish, from 2003 to 2010, five volumes of Memoirs, distinguished by their composite air. Although there are enough justifying or controversial pages, Constantin Toiu’s Memoirs are not governed by this aspect, because it was not the harsh revelations that interested the writer, but the thought of giving us a true “scholarly biography”, since travel notes and memos dominate his writings. In addition, in his scrupulous approach, the memoirs writer reveals to the reader the special concern for his literary inheritance.