Post by shakhar24 on Feb 28, 2024 5:59:35 GMT
This year , Huso editorial starts it with a great novelty. The Madrid label, which already has a good number of works of current Czech literature in its catalogue, continues to set its sights on Eastern Europe, this time betting on a gem of contemporary Romanian literature: the novel Punto y Apart, by Gabriel Chifu —published in by the Polirom publishing house with the title Punct si de la capat—, which from January can be purchased in Spain in bookstores and online stores. This novel, which has been published by Huso editorial, with the help of the Romanian Cultural Institute within its Subsidies Program for Translation and Editing, can be enjoyed by Spanish readers thanks to the impeccable translation by Catalina Iliescu Gheorghiu.
Mercedes de Diego: “Youth are not safe from sexist violence” In Romania, this novel - whose plot begins in and goes back in time to , portraying the consequences of the Second World War, the arrival of the Russians and the peculiarities that the C Level Executive List communist regime adopted in that country, especially the horrors committed in their prisons in the name of the creation of a new man—had an enthusiastic reception from critics. According to the literary critic and historian Răzvan Voncu, with it Chifu manages to revive, renewed, the politically themed novel so popular before the s, expanding the historical horizon and turning the poetics of the genre upside down, thus opening a new chapter. in the history of the contemporary Romanian novel. In the same year of its publication, Punct si de la capat received the Prose Prize from the Romanian magazine Convorbiri Literare in his country ; the award for Best Novel of the Year -, awarded by the jury of the National Prose Colloquium (Alba Iulia, ), and the Book of the Year Award , awarded at the first edition of the National Literature Festival, FestLit Cluj .
Full stop coverThe plot of Point and Apart begins the search carried out by a journalist, Valentin Dumnea, for the biological parents of a psychiatrist friend who, before dying, discovered that he was adopted. He manages to find the clue to his mother, who died in childbirth, alone in a hospital, but no trace of who his father could have been. When he is about to give up, because his friend has died without him having been able to give him an answer, Dumnea finds a saving clue: the centenarian History professor Bazil Dumitrescu, who finally recounts for him, for ten days and retrospectively, the lives of his two favorite students, Octavian Cadar and Damian Bordea, two brilliant and promising young people, but diametrically opposed (angel and demon?) whose lives, framed in a dramatic era of Romanian history, took different, although equally tragic, paths.
Mercedes de Diego: “Youth are not safe from sexist violence” In Romania, this novel - whose plot begins in and goes back in time to , portraying the consequences of the Second World War, the arrival of the Russians and the peculiarities that the C Level Executive List communist regime adopted in that country, especially the horrors committed in their prisons in the name of the creation of a new man—had an enthusiastic reception from critics. According to the literary critic and historian Răzvan Voncu, with it Chifu manages to revive, renewed, the politically themed novel so popular before the s, expanding the historical horizon and turning the poetics of the genre upside down, thus opening a new chapter. in the history of the contemporary Romanian novel. In the same year of its publication, Punct si de la capat received the Prose Prize from the Romanian magazine Convorbiri Literare in his country ; the award for Best Novel of the Year -, awarded by the jury of the National Prose Colloquium (Alba Iulia, ), and the Book of the Year Award , awarded at the first edition of the National Literature Festival, FestLit Cluj .
Full stop coverThe plot of Point and Apart begins the search carried out by a journalist, Valentin Dumnea, for the biological parents of a psychiatrist friend who, before dying, discovered that he was adopted. He manages to find the clue to his mother, who died in childbirth, alone in a hospital, but no trace of who his father could have been. When he is about to give up, because his friend has died without him having been able to give him an answer, Dumnea finds a saving clue: the centenarian History professor Bazil Dumitrescu, who finally recounts for him, for ten days and retrospectively, the lives of his two favorite students, Octavian Cadar and Damian Bordea, two brilliant and promising young people, but diametrically opposed (angel and demon?) whose lives, framed in a dramatic era of Romanian history, took different, although equally tragic, paths.