Northwestern University Press, 1996 Paper: 978-0-8101-2974-0 | Cloth: 978-0-8101-1396-1 Library of Congress Classification BL43.C84A84 1996 Dewey Decimal Classification 200.92
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Winner of 1997 Carl Sandburg Award
On May 21, 1991, University of Chicago professor Ioan Culianu was murdered execution-style on campus. The crime stunned the school, terrified students, and mystified the FBI. The case remains unsolved. In Eros, Magic, and the Murder of Professor Culianu, award-winning investigative reporter Ted Anton shows that the murder is what Culianu's friends suspected all along: the first political assassination of a professor on American soil.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
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.
REVIEWS
"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
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Note on Method
Prologue
Book One: The Crime, May 21, 1991
1. Religion as a System
2. The Aftermath
Book Two: Youth, 1950-1972
3. The Art of Memory
4. University Days, 1967-1971
5. "Dark People, Very Clever"
6. A Dream of Paradise
Book Three: Arriviste, 1972-1986
7. The Myth of the West: Italy, 1972-1975
8. Chicago, Paris, and Mircea Eliade
9. Holland: A Rising Young Intellectual, 1976-1983
10. 1484 and 1984
11. Abuses of interpretation
12. Pursuit, 1985
13. The Emerald Game, 1986
14. The Book of Life
Book Four: "Like Being Famous," 1987-1991
15. "All the World Is Mystery Again," 1987
16. Religion and Science: The Fourth Dimension, 1988
17. Divination, 1989
18. "Revolution," Christmas 1989
19. Free World, 1990
20. Scoptophilia
21. A Forking Path
22. Memories of the Future
23. "Dr. Faust: Great Sodomite and Necromancer"
24. Roses at the Door
Book Five: Games of the Mind, 1991-1996
25. After-death Journeys
26. Under the Sign of Capricorn: Suspects
27. The Investigation
28. Games of the Mind
Endnote
Works by Ioan Culianu
Index
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Northwestern University Press, 1996 Paper: 978-0-8101-2974-0 Cloth: 978-0-8101-1396-1
Winner of 1997 Carl Sandburg Award
On May 21, 1991, University of Chicago professor Ioan Culianu was murdered execution-style on campus. The crime stunned the school, terrified students, and mystified the FBI. The case remains unsolved. In Eros, Magic, and the Murder of Professor Culianu, award-winning investigative reporter Ted Anton shows that the murder is what Culianu's friends suspected all along: the first political assassination of a professor on American soil.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
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.
REVIEWS
"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
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Note on Method
Prologue
Book One: The Crime, May 21, 1991
1. Religion as a System
2. The Aftermath
Book Two: Youth, 1950-1972
3. The Art of Memory
4. University Days, 1967-1971
5. "Dark People, Very Clever"
6. A Dream of Paradise
Book Three: Arriviste, 1972-1986
7. The Myth of the West: Italy, 1972-1975
8. Chicago, Paris, and Mircea Eliade
9. Holland: A Rising Young Intellectual, 1976-1983
10. 1484 and 1984
11. Abuses of interpretation
12. Pursuit, 1985
13. The Emerald Game, 1986
14. The Book of Life
Book Four: "Like Being Famous," 1987-1991
15. "All the World Is Mystery Again," 1987
16. Religion and Science: The Fourth Dimension, 1988
17. Divination, 1989
18. "Revolution," Christmas 1989
19. Free World, 1990
20. Scoptophilia
21. A Forking Path
22. Memories of the Future
23. "Dr. Faust: Great Sodomite and Necromancer"
24. Roses at the Door
Book Five: Games of the Mind, 1991-1996
25. After-death Journeys
26. Under the Sign of Capricorn: Suspects
27. The Investigation
28. Games of the Mind
Endnote
Works by Ioan Culianu
Index
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