Mihail Sebastian had become an important personality for the Romanian literature mostly because of the published plays. Although his writing strenght it’s emphasized from his masterpieces, little know the personal life and the struggling periode that it was given him to live.

His diary it’s a good proof of  intellectual jewish’s destiny caught in the political games of those times. It was published after his death in 1996 and from then it entered in the attention of international and romanian historians and critics.

The structure of the diary is more personal and it fullfils the atmosphere during the inter-war time. Mihail Sebastian was contemporaneous with Mircea Eliade, Camil Petrescu, Eugen Ionesco, Emil Cioran, Nae Ionescu, these personalities had had a great influence in the inter-war circles.

The diary, that could be interpreted on many levels, it’s in the first place an intimate diary, a radioscopy of the insight life, of the struggling love affairs that the auothor had. As a matter of fact, one of his love affairs isnpired him to create one of the main caracthers from one of the most succesful plays he wrote. The woman he loved and inspired him was Leni, a well knonw actress at the National Theatre.

At the same time it is a diary of creation, in which the author writes the proces of writing his masterpieces. He describes his constant interest for Proust’s writing, for Jules Renard’s diary and the attention given to different studies of well know international masterpieces. All his writing projects offer an autenticity character to the diary, at the same time maintaining a paralalism between the final product of his imagination and the initial ideea.

The most darkened part of the writing is constituted by the problem regarding the anti-Semitism, problem that affected directly the author because of his jew origin. Yet, the diary of Mihail Sebastian it’s not „the diary of happiness”, the author’s conscience breaks the borders of the events and analizes everything with a complexity marked by deceptions and continous defeats.

Regarding the condition of the author as an artist surronded by countless atrocities, of which influnece he sees himself unable to break, Camil Petrescu describes Mihail Sebastian as an „authentic Ladima”.

The tragic destiny of the author vibrates from the last words written in the diary. Still, every piece of the diary is marked by the universal motif of lonliness and regret. Even though it was the year that ended the atrocities, Mihail Sebastian feels the overwhelming feeling of his soon death:” I feel an old undescribabel tireness and I carry with me, everywhere I go, my unhealing lonliness. The last  day of the year. I’m ashamed to be sad. Still, it’s the year that gave us freedom. Over all the biterness, the suffering, the illusions it still remains this single fundamental fact.”