sentences:  However, Ion Negoiţescu spent the early 1980s abroad, and, from 1982 to 1983, lived in Cologne, West Germany, and lectured in Romanian literature at the University of Münster.During his brief returns to Romania, he was a target for attacks in the national communist press, led at the time by writer Eugen Barbu and his "Săptămîna" magazine.In 1983, Negoiţescu decided to formalize his defection, settling in Munich.