Eros, Magic, and the Murder of Professor Culianu

Ted Anton is an associate professor of nonfiction writing in the English department at DePaul University. His book, Eros, Magic, and the Murder of Professor Culianu (1996) received the Carl Sandburg Award for Nonfiction from the Friends of the Chicago Public Library and was an Investigative Reporters and Editors National Book Award finalist. Anton was the co-editor of "The New Science Journalists" (1995). His magazine work, for The Sciences, Publishers Weekly, Lingua Franca, Chicago, the Chicago Tribune, and other publications, has been cited three consecutive times in Best American Essays and was nominated for a National Magazine Award in Reporting in 1993. A former Fulbright Research Fellow, Anton speaks about science on radio and to university and industry groups.

""Fascinating and excellent . . . important not just because it illuminates history, but because at the center of the story is Ioan Culianu, a figure so interesting no novelist could invent him. [In this murder] fiction and fact change places in a deadly game of masks and illusions."" --Andrei Codrescu|"Reveals both a fascinating individual's twenty-year-long life-and-death struggle with his conscience, and a violent underground war in Eastern Europe. This is a story not only about the power of freedom of speech and press, but also about the explosive convergence of scholarship and politics, and the very real risks of the unencumbered life of the mind."—Jeffrey Kittay, publisher, Lingua Franca

• AcknowledgmentsNote on MethodPrologueBook One: The Crime, May 21, 19911. Religion as a System2. The AftermathBook Two: Youth, 1950-19723. The Art of Memory4. University Days, 1967-19715. "Dark People, Very Clever"6. A Dream of ParadiseBook Three: Arriviste, 1972-19867. The Myth of the West: Italy, 1972-19758. Chicago, Paris, and Mircea Eliade9. Holland: A Rising Young Intellectual, 1976-198310. 1484 and 198411. Abuses of interpretation12. Pursuit, 198513. The Emerald Game, 198614. The Book of LifeBook Four: "Like Being Famous," 1987-199115. "All the World Is Mystery Again," 198716. Religion and Science: The Fourth Dimension, 198817. Divination, 198918. "Revolution," Christmas 198919. Free World, 199020. Scoptophilia21. A Forking Path22. Memories of the Future23. "Dr. Faust: Great Sodomite and Necromancer"24. Roses at the DoorBook Five: Games of the Mind, 1991-199625. After-death Journeys26. Under the Sign of Capricorn: Suspects27. The Investigation28. Games of the MindEndnoteWorks by Ioan CulianuIndex