Vintila Horia: Dieu est né en exil (God Was Born in Exile)
The latest addition to my website is Vintila Hori's Dieu est né en exil (God Was Born in Exile). This is the fourth book on my website about Ovid's exile…
Camil Petrescu: Ultima noapte de dragoste, întâia noapte de război [The Last Night of Love, the First Night of War]
The latest addition to my website is Camil Petrescu's Ultima noapte de dragoste, întâia noapte de război [The Last Night of Love, the First Night of War]. This is a…
Magda Cârneci: FEM (FEM)
The latest addition to my website is Magda Cârneci's FEM (FEM). This is nominally a series of stories told Scheherazade-like by an unnamed woman to her unnamed and useless, about-to-be-dumped…
Romanian literature
Regularly, at around this time of the year, I concentrate on reading books from just one nationality and this year it is Romania. For most Western readers who know anything…
Zsuzsa Selyem: Moszkvában esik (It’s Raining in Moscow)
The latest addition to my website is Zsuzsa Selyem's Moszkvában esik (It’s Raining in Moscow). This is a series of interrelated stories concerning the Beczásy family, who were driven out…
Ruxandra Cesereanu: Angelus (Angelus)
The latest addition to my website is Ruxandra Cesereanu's Angelus (Angelus). Three angels arrive in Metropolis, the capital of Homeland. They seem harmless but they are also mute. What do…
Mircea Cărtărescu: Travesti [Travesty]
The latest addition to my website is Mircea Cărtărescu's Travesti [Travesty]. The novel is narrated by the thirty-four year old Victor, a successful writer but with a troubled mind, clearly…
Mircea Cărtărescu: Solenoid
The latest addition to my website is Mircea Cărtărescu's Solenoid. This is Cărtărescu's masterpiece. Partially it is the story of a man who tries and fails to become a writer…
Mircea Cărtărescu: Levantul [The Levant]
The latest addition to my website is Mircea Cărtărescu's Levantul [The Levant]. This is a mock epic, which, in the original Romanian was written primarily in verse form, but, for…
Romania and Ukraine
I have just returned from a cruise down the Danube, into the Black Sea and up the Dnieper. Though this was not the purpose, there was a lot to see…