Zenobia

by Gellu Naum

Overview

"Despre Gellu Naum, poetul extraordinar al avangardei romanesti, nu s-a scris niciodata cu atata competenta ca in Zenobia - o carte neobisnuita, socanta, provocatoare, de factura singulara in literatura romana.“ (Lucian Raicu)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789734646760
Publisher:	Editura Polirom
Publication date:	05/14/2014
Series:	Literatura
Sold by:	PUBLISHDRIVE KFT
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	783,168
File size:	540 KB
Language:	Romanian

About the Author

GELLU NAUM (1915- 2001) was a prominent Romanian poet, dramatist, novelist, children's writer, and translator. He is remembered as the founder of the Romanian Surrealist group. The artist Lyggia Naum, his wife, was the inspiration and main character in his 1985 novel Zenobia.

What People are Saying About This

Mihai Miroiu

"One of the most exciting experimental fictions produced in Romania in the last 15 years or so." -- Cornell University

Editorial Reviews

A member of the Romanian literary establishment, Naum has penned an existentialist antinovel that has no clear plot, little development of characters (in fact, sometimes it's difficult to tell if the characters even exist), and no anchors to time. The reader is tipped off by the quote at the beginning of the novel: "And all of us who were alive thought we were dead and walked about in a daze...." The protagonist wanders through life with his (imaginary) companion Zenobia on a loose journey in a neutral frame of mind with little reaction to the people, events, and places he sees and the desires, temptations, and horrors that surround him. Experiments with style and vocabulary abound, and Zenobia benefits from a lush translation that lets the reader enjoy the language fully. For collections of avant-garde fiction.-Olivia Opello, Onondaga Cty. P.L., Syracuse, N.Y.

Library Journal

"High metaphysical hilarity from a hitherto unknown master whose work in its strongest moments recalls the best of Beckett, Gombrowicz, and Ionesco." —Kirkus Reviews

"Experiments with style and vocabulary abound, and Zenobia benefits from a lush translation that lets the reader enjoy the language fully." —Library Journal


"Fascinated with surralism or not, any reader would find in Zenobia a rewarding attempt to go beyond the power of words, images, and logic. Like the best in the surrealist tradition, it seeks to narrate the unnarratable and challenges its readers to comprehend the incomprehensible."  —World Literature Today


"One of the most exciting experimental fictions produced in Romania in the last fifteen years or so." —Mihai Miroiu

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