Memories from the Life of a Teacher

In 1974, a retired village schoolteacher in southern Romania sat down to record everything he had witnessed in eighty years of life. The result is this remarkable memoir — an unvarnished, first-person account of rural Wallachia across the most turbulent century in the country's history.Chiriță M. Bărbulescu was born on 16 December 1900 in the commune of Martalogi, Teleorman County. From his childh...