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: The Internet Archive hosts viewable and downloadable versions of the text. Mircea Eliade La Tiganci pdf
: Gavrilescu’s "sin" is forgetting. He forgot his true passion (music) and his true love (Hildegard), settling instead for a mediocre existence. The heat and the "Gypsies" force him to remember. Critical Legacy In Romania, texts enter the public domain 70