Riassunto
"She was, practically, delirious. It was clear, she was mad. But it was not only that. In the most dialectically possible manner, she was also clearly a nymphomaniac." (The Unhappy Adventure of My Friend Adam Leon - a Professor, a Literary Man, a Photographer and a Martyr) The titles of his stories set up an atmosphere of intrigue. Take, for instance, "The Innocent and Collateral Victims of a Bloody War with Russia, which, in the end, did not take place" and "Report on Two Couples uprooted from Reality, accompanied by a Vague, Imprecise Commentary regarding Reality as such." On the surface these titles are a summary of the story's events, but they actually pose questions which, slyly carve out a pathway through the playful narratives, and take the reader to the heart of Liviu's intention. The stories themselves are a montage of factual observation and inquisitiveness, married to an acute insightfulness and a daring post-modernist style. They offer a radical perception of change and movement throughout Europe from a pair of fresh eyes, enlivened and enthused by the watershed of European accession. Liviu, however, is setting out achieve something even more personal and deeply felt. Each story explores some aspect of memory in which family life, the life of the community, and the events which define life in the nation are mingled." (Mike Phillips)
Informazioni sull'autore
Liviu Antonesei (born 1953) is a poet, a critic and a skilled and illuminating storyteller. He is a professor at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the Al. I. Cuza University of Iasi, Romania. Liviu is a member of the Romanian PEN Club and ASPRO (The Association of Professional Writers); he is the founder of the cultural magazine Timpul (The Time). Bibliography - selection: Pharmakon (poetry, 1989), Cautarea cautarii (The Search of Searches, poetry, 1990), Vremea in schimbare (Times in a State of Change; interviews, 1995), Aparitia Eonei si celelalte poeme de dragoste culese din Arborele Gnozei (The Appearance of Eona and the Other Love Poems Picked from the Tree of Gnosis, 1999), Nautilus. Structuri, momente si modele in cultura interbelica (Nautilus. Structures, Moments and Models in Inter-War Culture, 1999; second edition 2007), Despre dragoste. Anatomia unui sentiment (About Love. The Anatomy of a Sentiment, 2000; e-edition 2005; second edition 2010), Check Point Charlie. Sapte povestiri fara a mai socoti si prefata (Check Point Charlie. Seven Stories, without Counting the Foreword, 2003), La Morrison Hotel. Povestiri de pina azi (At the Morrison Hotel. Stories until Nowadays, 2007). At Polirom publishing house he also published: Jurnal din anii ciumei: 1987-1989. Incercari de psihologie spontana (Journal from the Years of the Plague: 1987-1989. Attempts at Spontaneous Psychology, 1995), Paideia. Fundamentele culturale ale educatiei (Paideia. Cultural Fundaments of Education, 1996), O prostie a lui Platon. Intelectualii si politica (Plato's Foolishness. Intellectuals and Politics, 1997), Literatura, ce poveste! Un diptic si citeva linkuri in reteaua literaturii (Literature - What a Story! A Diptych and Some Links in the Network of Literature, 2004), Polis si Paideia. Sapte studii despre educatie, cultura si politici educative (Polis and Paideia. Seven Studies on Education, Culture and Educational Policies, 2005). His most recent short-story collection, published at Polirom in 2011, is The Innocent and Collateral Victims of a Bloody War with Russia (Victimele inocente si colaterale ale unui singeros razboi cu Rusia, 2011). In 2013, Liviu Antonesei published a volume of poetry, Un taur in vitrina de piatra (A Bull in the Stone Display) - Adenium.
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