Waiting: stories

by Dumitru Tsepeneag, Patrick Camiller (Translator)

Overview

Though best known now for his novels, this collection of pre-exile short stories by the renowned Romanian author and "onirist" not only show Dumitru Tsepeneag at his best, but provide a glimpse into the secret history of surrealism uunder the brutal regime of Nicolae Ceausescu. In these stories, life is both banal and bizarre, on the verge of breaking down, like a film loop played once too often, with the hot glare of irrationality always waiting to burn through. Looking forward to "Vain Art of the Fugue" and back to Breton, "Waiting" is a subversive delicacy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781564789013
Publisher:	Deep Vellum Publishing
Publication date:	10/03/2013
Pages:	135
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Dumitru Tsepeneag is one of the most innovative Romanian writers of the second half of the twentieth century. In 1975, while he was in France, his citizenship was revoked by Ceaușescu, and he was forced into exile. In the 1980s, he started to write in French. He returned to his native language after the Ceaușescu regime ended, but continues to write in his adopted language as well.

Andrea Reiter is a Research Fellow at the School of Modern Languages, Univeristy of Southampton, UK.