The cover of Attack in the Library shows the back of the statue of Ion Luca Caragiale (1852-1912), journalist, satirist, short-story writer and arguably one of the greatest Romanian playwrights.

An unconfirmed but widely believed story maintains that the statue was originally meant to be Lenin. It appears that sculptor Constantin Baraschi took part in 1957 in a contest for a Lenin statue.

In order to prove his zeal, he cast it in bronze without waiting for the Party’s approval. He subsequently lost the commission and was left with a spare Lenin.

Baraschi waited for another commission to make use of the bronze, and it seems that when he was asked to design the statue of Caragiale, he simply cut Lenin’s head off and replaced it with one of the playwright’s.

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Patrick McGuinness, Christopher MacLehose, Mike Phillips, and Peter Lee-Wright (chair) discuss crime fiction - the real European currency, on 24 November 2011, 17:00 - 19:00.
From the astonishing success of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo books (and films, and US re-makes) and multiple Wallander TV series, to the Danish Killing and French Spiral TV series: is crime fiction the real European currency? Romanian crime fiction reveals another side: it subverted censorship.

Location: LG02,  1 New Academic Building, Goldsmiths College, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW. Free entrance

The University of Leeds hosts a presentation and debate on crime literature from Eastern Europe, on 1 December 2011, 17:30-20:00, featuring award-winning author Mike Phillips and special guests from Romania: George Arion, Oana Stoica-Mujea, and Bogdan Hrib.
Introduction by the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Professor Frank Finlay and John McLeod, Professor of Postcolonial and Diaspora Literatures.

Location: Rupert Beckett Lecture Theatre, Michael Sadler Building, LG X04, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT.

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