For Two Thousand Years - Mihail Sebastian
For two thousand years was written and published in 1934, which itself holds a significance because it is an account of a Jewish person in Romania before the second world war. The narrative starts in 1923 when the narrator is in university. We see depictions of bullying and violence against him and his fellow Jews colleagues. He begins to write a diary to cope up with these issues. The first couple of sections can be rightly referred to as an agonizing account of a young kid who is insecure and feeling alone. He prefers solitude and immerses himself in literature and abstractions without actually facing the world. He meets a mentor who revolutionizes the way he thinks and makes him feel more connected with the surroundings. The book spans over 10/12 years into the narrators life where he works as an architect. The unrest in the 1920s become a thing of the past only to be risen again 10 years later. He finds out that his co-workers who were once his friends, people with whom he sh...