Through her own reading she also gained a solid background in modern Western literature. She made her literary debut in 1971 with a fragment of prose in
Luceafarul (The Morning Star), a literary journal. In the same period, Adamesteanu contributed to several other literary magazines such as
România Literara (Literary Romania),
Vatra (The Hearth), and
Viata Româneasca (Romanian Life).
In 1964 Adamesteanu married Gheorghe-Mihai Ionescu, an electrotechnics engineer with whom she had a son, Mircea Vlad, born in 1968. In 1965 she finished her studies with a thesis on the "Modifications in the Structure of Characters in Marcel Proust's Prose," an author just "rediscovered" in Romania in those years. In the same year Nicolae Ceausescu became head of the Romanian Communist Party (PCR) and inaugurated a period of political and cultural liberalization that lasted from 1965 to 1973. Adamesteanu described in some of her stories the effort she made for years to forget the political slogans learned at school and aesthetic cliches she was obliged to internalize, and the realist-socialist authors she had to study.
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