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An Intellectual History of Cannibalism
The cannibal has played a surprisingly important role in the history of thought--perhaps the ultimate symbol of savagery and degradation-- haunting the Western imagination since …
The Encounter
Pushed around by ticket takers who demand his ticket in several languages, a middle aged man goes through a nightmare of hiding and getting away until he manages to cross a …
Collected Prose
The experimental prose written by Urmuz, the pseudonym of Dem. Demetrescu-Buzau (1883- 1923), represents a model for the Romanian avant-garde movement, anticipating not only the …
Life Begins on Friday
A young man is found lying unconscious on the outskirts of Bucharest. No one knows who he is and everyone has a different theory about how he got there. The stories of the various …
Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police
Nadia Comaneci is the Romanian child prodigy and global gymnastics star who ultimately fled her homeland and the brutal oppression of a communist regime. At the age of just 14, …
Coming from an Off-Key Time
In his apocalyptic novel Coming from an Off-Key Time, Bogdan Suceava satirises events in his native Romania since the violent end of the Ceaucescu regime. Suceava uses three …
Imaginary Performances in Shakespeare
In Imaginary Performances in Shakespeare, visionary modernist theatre director Aureliu Manea analyses the theatrical possibilities of Shakespeare. Through nineteen Shakespeare …
Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police
Nadia Comaneci is the Romanian child prodigy and global gymnastics star who ultimately fled her homeland and the brutal oppression of a communist regime. At the age of just 14, …
Short Prose
In the late-1960s Romania, during the relative cultural thaw of the post-Stalinist period, Dumitru Tsepeneag emerged as an innovative writer of short prose and the pioneer of …
Matei Brunul
The year is 1959, one of the darkest periods of Romania’s communist regime. Political prisoner Bruno Matei, a puppeteer of Italian ancestry, has been released from jail a broken …
The Bulgarian Truck
The writer-narrator of The Bulgarian Truck has hit upon a new technique for writing a novel, which he calls “a building site beneath the open sky,” but he cannot persuade his more …