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Published Online: Feb 02, 2022
Page range: 118 - 127
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/clb-2021-0012
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The accusations and controversies arising from the appearance of the novel For Two Thousand Years.. are numerous. Some of the most radical are accusations of anti-Semitism and repudiation of Sebastian’s own Jewish ancestry. Through How I Became a Hooligan, Mihail Sebastian responds to these accusations by emphasizing that Jewishness is presented in the novel from a metaphysical perspective, leaving aside politics and everything that politics implies.