Octavian Paler

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Octavian Paler (July 2, 1926–May 7, 2007) was a Romanian writer, politician, journalist and civil society activist.

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Paler was born in Lisa, Braşov County.He studies at Spiru Haret High School in Bucharest In the summer of 1944, one week before graduating the 7th grade of high school, he has a wrangle with George Serban, the principle of the school, who is his uncle, Paler is forced to leave the school and move to Radu Negru High School from Făgăraş. Here, he studies his last grade, at the literature profile. He has remarking results at philosophy, Latin and Greek In 1945, he graduates magna cum laude. In the same year, he takes the school-leaving examination in Sibiu. He studies Philosophy and Law at the University of Bucharest. He dies at the age of 80, because of a heart attack.

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• Umbra cuvintelor
• Drumuri prin memorie I (Egipt, Grecia)
• Drumuri prin memorie II (Italia)
• Viaţa pe un peron
• Scrisori imaginare
• Apărarea lui Galilei
• Aventuri solitare
• Deşertul pentru totdeauna
• Un om norocos
• Mitologii subiective
• Caminante, (2004)
• Autoportret într-o oglindă spartă, (2004)
• Caminante. Jurnal şi contrajurnal mexican, (2005), ediţia a doua, adăugită
• Viaţa ca o coridă
• Un muzeu în labirint
• Eul detestabil
• Vremea intrebărilor
• Rugaţi-vă să nu vă crească aripi
• Don Quijote în est
• Polemici cordiale
• Calomnii mitologice 2007)

In a 2006 poll conducted by Romanian Television to identify the "greatest Romanians of all time", he came in 91st.