Clutching a bouquet of flowers, hurrying to catch his bus, and arguing with the driver once he's on, a man rushes to a train station platform to meet a woman. This sequence of events occurs and recur
A man, a writer, lives alone in a rather squalid Paris apartment. He is trying to write a novel, but he has nothing to say. He tries multiple beginnings, interspersed with one digression (but from wh
From these few elements, Romanian author Dumitru Tsepeneag builds a dreamlike world both ancient and contemporary, and as mesmerizing as that in his critically acclaimed Vain Art of the Fugue. Praise
The author-narrator, a sarcastic Romanian eI?migreI? with a French wife, tells with great insight and humor the story of a young student's life and education as he passes from post-Ceausescu Romania
Though best known now for his novels, thiscollection of pre-exile short stories by the renowned Romanian author and“onirist” not only show Dumitru Tsepeneag at his best, but provide a glimpseinto the
La Belle Roumaine tells the story of Ana, a beautiful and bewitching Romanian woman. Shuttling between the capital cities of Europe, the novel follows Ana as she seduces café owners, philosophers, and
A director is trying to adapt a short story he once wrote for the screen. The story is about an isolated train station under threat by a giant eagle in a small town where rumors of war are rumbling. B
Now in its tenth year, Best European Fiction continues to be an essential resource for readers, critics, and publishers interested in contemporary European literature. This year’s anthology brings tog
The writer-narrator of The Bulgarian Truck has hit upon a new technique for constructing a novel, which he calls 'a building site beneath the open sky', but he can't seem to persuade his more widely r
