/View.data/ A person and a lady meet on the platform of a small deserted station. He has fled his city, terrorized by cobra tamers. She has additionally left her city, which has been taken over by canine trainers. The station is lower off from the world, with out a phone, with a clock with out palms, with an indication on which there isn’t any schedule of trains that have not truly handed by means of right here for a very long time. Close by there’s solely a forest and a swamp, and past it – a desert… A novel-parable exploring the anatomy of worry and absurdity, the picture of a supposedly new or renewed society – in actual fact, our society, which aspired to vivid peaks, however turned out to be a sufferer of his delusions.
An existential novel within the poetics of Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Dino Budzatti, Samuel Beckett by the exceptional author and dissident thinker Octavian Paller / 1927- 2007/.
Within the lyrical comedy “A Star With no Identify” by the Romanian fashionable basic Mihail Sebastian / staged with success from Broadway to Shanghai / the younger woman Mona from the Bucharest “bo mond”, operating away from her lover from the on line casino in Sinaia, is taken down as a passenger with out a ticket and cash for the advantageous of a small station. Within the city lives a arithmetic trainer all for astronomy who has found an unknown star. He shelters her for an evening in his quarters and introduces her to his discovery. Mona discovers one other world unknown to her. Within the morning, nevertheless, she returns residence together with her lover who has arrived from Sinai, and the trainer who named the brand new star after her won’t ever see her once more, “for a star by no means departs from its path!”
The opera “Star With no Identify” was written primarily based on this well-known play, music by Parashkev Hadjiev, libretto by Ognyan Stamboliev, introduced on the Sofia stage in November 1985.
“Trip Recreation” exhibits a excessive mountain resort, the place one of many vacationers provides a bunch of randomly gathered vacationers to spend this annual trip with out newspapers, radio, phone and any information, worries and darkish ideas. To start with, every of them resists in their very own approach, till in the long run they depart no less than somewhat modified…
Within the “Protarus Affair” or “The Final Hour”, an article about Alexander the Nice by a professor of historical past on the College of Bucharest, as a substitute of showing in a scientific journal, inadvertently appeared in a yellow day by day newspaper. Shocked by a number of typographical errors, the oligarch Grigore Bukshan decides that the pseudo toponym “Protar” is an phantasm attacking his massive soiled deal bearing the identical identify. The intrigue will get extra difficult and presents a actuality from the Nineteen Forties, which is repeated as we speak in each Romania and Bulgaria.
The prose of D. R. Popescu / 1935/, impressed by the fashions of Faulkner (with the condensed, hazy narrative originally, which steadily turns into clearer), Mircea Eliade (with the sudden jumps in time and house), Marquez and Italo Calvino (with the synthesis between the true and the magical), is decidedly authentic. In it, the amalgam between the concrete and the implausible is masterfully achieved, the latter giving a particular which means to the real looking. And that is maybe the strongest aspect of his work. In lots of his performs, brief tales and novels, the on a regular basis and banal grows into the grotesque, into the implausible, and that is his favourite constructive precept. “As a result of nothing in life is pure,” says the writer in an interview: “In life there’s all the things: love, cruelty, the Aristocracy, meanness, sublimity, stupidity. These reverse qualities could be mixed even in a single individual, in a single picture, in a single episode, in a single single scene. As a result of the reader and the viewer know that life is mysterious, difficult, downright unpredictable. The bizarre realism of the works of the previous can not arouse the curiosity that they as soon as aroused in readers and viewers. Instances are actually totally different now…”.
The primary sentence of this uncommon novel incorporates the whole future e book, its plot, its hidden vitality. To jot down a really sensible novel, the writer must acquire such a gap phrase prematurely from the specialists of an outdated literary company primarily based in Paris, engaged within the research and sale of novel beginnings. And the providers of this unusual and mysterious (inaccessible to everybody!) group have been used of their time by nice writers resembling: James Joyce, Herbert Wells, Ernest Hemingway, Albert Camus, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann…
And right here Matej Vishniek / born 1956/ reveals the key – what to do in an effort to obtain the infamous, cherished by all writers, the Nobel Prize. Simply lookup this company that has been promoting novel opening phrases for almost 300 years now.
“The primary sentence of a novel should comprise one thing of the vitality of that uncontrollable cry opening the trail of an avalanche… It should be like a spark previous a robust chain response… So there should be no innocence, particularly within the first sentence. It incorporates inside itself as in a germ the entire story, the entire battle. Sure, the primary phrase is an embryo overflowing with future potentialities like a profitable sperm, if you’ll permit me that comparability… Ha.” That is how Vishniek’s e book begins with the principle character being a younger author who sought out this company within the hope of success.
The novel of the world-renowned playwright and fiction author MATEJ VISHNIEK, awarded with the grand prize for the European novel of 2016 in France, is a conglomeration of concepts, unusual and sudden plots and authentic ideas. And though his primary thought of presenting “the tip of the age of the novel” as a person creation is not new, it’s developed in an authentic, spectacular approach…
“Gaia Libris” publishing home, Sofia, director Emil Krastev
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