The latest addition to my website is Mateiu Caragiale's . This is a new translation of a novel voted the best Romanian novel by a poll of Romanian readers. It…
The latest addition to my website is Andrea Bajani's Se consideri le colpe (If You Kept a Record of Sins). Our narrator is Lorenzo who learns of the death of…
I have now read twenty Romanian novels in a row. The overall impression is that Romanians have had a thoroughly miserable twentieth century. Starting with the oppression of the peasants,…
The latest addition to my website is Mihail Sebastian's De două mii de ani (For Two Thousand Years). This is a novel about anti-Semitism which, for a long time, was…
The latest addition to my website is Max Blecher's Întâmplări din irealitatea imediată (Adventures in Immediate Irreality; later: Occurrence in the Immediate Unreality). Blecher was dying of spinal tuberculosis when…
The latest addition to my website is Irina Teodorescu's La Malédiction du bandit moustachu [The Curse of the Moustached Bandit]. At the beginning of the 20th century, a Robin Hood-type…
The latest addition to my website is Panait Istrati's Les Chardons du Baragan (The Thistles of the Baragan). The novel is set in the very inhospitable region of Romania called…
The latest addition to my website is Cecilia Stefanescu's Intrarea soarelui (Sun Alley). Emi and Sal are twelve year olds. Neither has a sibling. They meet and fall for one…
The latest addition to my website is Filip Florian's Degete mici (Little Fingers). The basic story involves an archaeological dig of a Roman fort. About 300 feet from the dig,…
The latest addition to my website is Gellu Naum's Zenobia (Zenobia ). Naum was a Surrealist poet and this is very much a Surrealist poet's novel. Our hero is called…