Virgil Ierunca

Virgil Ierunca (Romanian pronunciation: [virˈd͡ʒil jeˈruŋka]; born Virgil Untaru [unˈtaru]; August 16, 1920, Lădești, Vâlcea County – September 28, 2006, Paris) was a Romanian literary critic, journalist and poet. He was married to Monica Lovinescu.

Virgil Ierunca in 1994

Both Ierunca and Lovinescu worked for several decades for Radio Free Europe.

In 2006 both were members of the Romanian Presidential Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania; the Commission's chairman, Vladimir Tismăneanu, called them "the most honest and dignified couple in the history of Romanian culture".

Published books
  • Fenomenul Piteşti (Ed. Humanitas, Bucharest, 1990)
  • Româneşte (Ed. Humanitas, Bucharest, 1991)
  • Subiect şi predicat (Ed. Humanitas, Bucharest, 1993)
  • Dimpotrivă (Ed. Humanitas, Bucharest, 1994)
  • Semnul mirării (Ed. Humanitas, Bucharest, 1995)
  • Trecut-au anii (Ed. Humanitas, Bucharest, 2000)
  • Poeme de exil (Ed. Humanitas, Bucharest, 2001)
gollark: The only big problem I can see with that is that you can't really have the property/developed stuff on that land separate from the land itself, at least with current technology and use of nonmovable stuff.
gollark: You wouldn't just say "each m² of land costs $0.0001/year in taxes", I think one interesting idea there is to have people *set* a value, have a % of that be taxed, but also force it to be sold at that price if someone wants it.
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gollark: Farming would only be really expensive if the land is worth money *anyway*.
gollark: I don't know if it would actually be able to pay for everything important.


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