Claudiu Turcuș is Assistant Professor at Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania. His research interests are focused on Eastern European Literature, Cinema and Criticism. He published widely on topics such as the cultural memory of Socialism, the representation of Post-communist transition and its intellectual history or the ideology of New Romanian Cinema.

• Introduction. The Odyssey of Augustus the Skeptic – PART ONE: AESTHETICS – Chapter I. Happenings In Ruined Reality – Chapter II. Socialist Reality without Socialist Realism – Chapter III. The (Un)reality of Exile – PART TWO: EAST ETHICS – Chapter I. The Inopportune Archive – Chapter II. The Separation from Totalitarianism.