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" ................... Site Index Synopsis Introduction Index of People Index by Profession Extracts From The Book: Princess Marthe Bibesco Ana Blandiana Smaranda Braescu Madelene “Madi” Cancicov Nina Cassian Elena Ceausescu Ioana Celibidache Queen Elisabeth of Romania Princess Gregoire Ghica Princess Ileana of Romania Dora D’Istria Monica Lovinescu Ileana Malancioiu Queen Marie of Romania Dr. Agnes Kelly Murgoci Mabel Nandris Countess Anna de Noailles Ana Novac Oana Orlea Ana Pauker Marta Petreu Elisabeta Rizea of Nucsoara Sanda Stolojan Leontina Vaduva Anca Visdei Sabina Wurmbrand |
"Blouse Roumaine" - Extracts from the Book .................................................................................................. selected and introduced by Constantin Roman. Oana Orlea (née Oana Cantacuzino) (4), .................................................................................................. (b. 1936, Romania) Exile living in France Political Prisoner, Writer, Exile 387. Prison Peep-hole: “The eye of an evil God who hides his face and has absolute power over the prisoner.” (“Les Anées volées – dans le Goulag roumain a seize ans”, Seuil, 1991) 404. Resistance: “The resistance in the (Carpathian) mountains was a dramatic episode. I realise that I do not know what name to give it, by what name to identify these men and women who died up there under the bullets, or simply of cold and hunger. Such appellations were found (for others): The resistance is French,” as it fights the Germans, the partisans are Soviet, as they fight the Germans. There are also the desperados and the mudjahidins, but there is no word assigned to those who had fought, arm in hand, against the Communists, in the countries of Eastern Europe, occupied by the Soviet armies.” “Les Anées volées – dans le Goulag roumain a seize ans”, Seuil, 1991) 428. Russians: “The passion of the Russians for wrist watches was a classic: it was funny to see them display several watches to their wrist, or an alarm clock hanging round their neck.” (“Les Anées volées”, Seuil, 1991) 458. Soviet female army officers: “As to the females of the Soviet army, they discovered in Romania the existence of such underwear as the chemisette and the bra, which they were so proud of, that they would wear it over their uniform, but nobody had the guts to laugh at such things. When the first Romanian refugees who reached the West, brought with them such images, they were accused of being CIA agents.” (“Les Anées volées”, Seuil, 1991) -------------------------- Biography: Author of several novels written in Romanian and in French Oana Orlea lives in France since 1980. A step grand daughter of Georges Enesco, whose wife, Princess Cantacuzino was Oana’s paternal grandmother, Oana Cantacuzino becomes in her youth the subject of a political horse trade. Aged only 16 she is confined to the communists prisons, because she distributed anti-communist pamphlets! Ironically, whilst she expiates her sins in 13 of the most attrocious political prisons of Romania, her step-grandfather, Georges Enesco, the world-renowned musician, living in Paris, is invited by the then Romanian president, Petre Groza to visit Romania. Enesco declines the official invitation unless Oana is freed by the regime. The obduracy of youth causes Oana to outlive the dour years of reprisals in the communist goulags to tell the story of her “stolen youth” in a poignant biography published by the Editions Seuil, in Paris. She writes under her married name of Oana Orlea.. Bibliography: Orlea, Oana, “Un Sosie en Cavale”, Seuil, Paris, 1986 Orlea, Oana, “Les Anées volées – dans le Goulag roumain a seize ans”, Seuil, 1991 Orlea, Oana, “Ia-ti boarfele si misca!”- Interview with Mariana Marin, Editura Cartea Romaneasca, Bucharest, 1991 |
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