A successful provocation of Romania's cultural scene

Romanian literary critic and historian Adrian Marino wrote the book The Life of a Lonely Person, which at his own request was to be published five months after his death and will now go on sale in March. In the book Marino accuses famous intellectuals of provincialism and making moral compromises. The daily Evenimentul Zilei comments: "With all due respect to the intellectuals in Adrian Marino's book, it is good that he has voiced criticism against them; it's good even if it looks bad. Provocation. A discussion about a person can sometimes help to understand his work. At any rate controversy attracts attention and thus has the same effect as a shelf full of trophies. ... However the posthumous discussion triggered by Adrian Marino risks turning into a typical Bucharest smear campaign instead of a genuine and necessary debate about Romania's cultural values - what they are, what they should be and how they should be fostered."

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