The author grew up in an environment poor in feelings and experiences, as was expected for a communist society. He became a teenager imprisoned in complexity. In his loneliness, he discovered liter...view moreThe author grew up in an environment poor in feelings and experiences, as was expected for a communist society. He became a teenager imprisoned in complexity. In his loneliness, he discovered literature and found a way to satisfy his desires to think and feel. These experiences would later perfect his character and, by default, his literary tendencies.
Although the novel is based on actual events, the author modified the events in the characters’ lives. There is such a range of experiences, many of them complex and twisted, that the author lived through during adolescence, when he wrote the novel.
The author was born and raised in the capital of Romania, and he grew up in a modest family and society, as did all under communism. He continued to have a modest life until after adolescence when, after being releases from the constraints of communism, he rediscovered himself in a free society in which he could discard the sadness he had repressed.view less