Mihail Sebastian – the Romanian writer of Jewish origin - lived in one of the most tumultuous and frustrating periods of history, the two world wars, marked by deep social and political changes, and, last but not least, by psychological ones. He was part of a generation who experienced an age of profound changes, when instability, insecurity and alienation were the factors that led to analyzing the inner world. Mihail Sebastian was destined to be "the child of suffering", according to a wrong mentality induced against the Semitic community along the time; and thus, his life took the shape of his destiny. Undoubtedly, Joseph Hechter’s (his real name) childhood was frustrating, the writer often evoking it as a troubled childhood, which was to mark him for the rest of his life; Mihail Sebastian recognized the enormous inferiority complex that the “lost” child had because of his Hebrew identity. That is why, Sebastian aspired to re-create a painful reality through art; his work tried a solution, a version of an autobiography marked by the awareness of loss. As far as his birth  place is concerned (the city of Braila, on the Danube river), for Sebastian it represented a “mythic geography”. "Jewish, Romanian and Danubian" is how the writer named himself or "the most Romanian Jewish". Therefore, we can talk about Sebastian’s  triple identity: Romanian, Jewish and writer of the Danube.