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Mihail Sebastian (born Iosif Hechter; October 18, 1907—May
29, 1945) was a Romanian writer.
Born to a Jewish family in Brăila, he studied in Bucharest law and
philosophy and later published several novels, including his Accidentul
("The Accident"), "Oraşul cu salcâmi" ("The Acacia Tree city"), under the
influence of French novelists such as Marcel Proust and Jules Renard. In
1934 he published another novel, De două mii de ani... ("It's been two
thousand years..."), about what it means to be a Jew in Romania.
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