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Fiction. Translated from the Romanian by Simina Calin, Calin-Andrei Mihailescu, Ramona Uricescu, and Liana Lupas. Popa's Lady V. is still a virgin after four marriages, yet one can't say if this entitles her to travel from the actual world of the Frick Museum into Whistler's paintings exhibited therein. With a touch of Hawthorne and a bow to Henry James, "Lady V." invites the reader to step into the story and see from the inside its contours. From this refined decadence the world goes on psyche's sly fantastic slopes in a "Choice" reminiscent of Salem 1692, to then return, with the delirious humor of "Panic Syndrome!," to Manhattan, the psychoanalysts' neighborhood. At the end of all these turns the reader gets it: nobody invented anxiety, but in the Great Belly of the City, full of butterflies, the legion of pros is there to shrink it.
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Dumitru Radu Popa ne ofera o mostra de realism magic, in linia altor proze publicate de autor. De aceasta data el aduce in prim plan o serie de intamplari biografice legate de familia sa din Baia Mare si imprejurimi, in contextul prigoanei greco-catolicilor de la sfarsitul deceniului cinci si inceputul deceniului sase al secolului din urma. Personajele evolueaza pe diferite planuri, realitatea si fictiunea ingemanandu-se intr-o maniera indestructibila. Accentele de umor sunt mult mai putin evidente de aceasta data, tonul general fiind grav. Actiunea e alerta si, desi o oarecare discursivitate poate deconcerta la un moment dat cititorul, pana la urma experientele tuturor personajelor – unel...
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