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Item Details
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ZENOBIA
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| By: |
Gellu Naum, James Brook (Trans), Sasha Vlad (Trans) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£19.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0810112558 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780810112551 |
| Publisher: |
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
5 July, 1995 |
| Pages: |
220 |
| Translated from: |
Romanian |
| Description: |
An existentialist anti-novel by a member of the Romanian literary avant-garde. It demonstrates a commitment to surrealistic aesthetics, and has a clear lack of an obvious plot, minimal development of character, variations of time sequence, and experiments with vocabulary and punctuation. |
| Synopsis: |
One of the best-known novels by prolific Romanian avant-garde writer Gelu Naum, Zenobia is the evocation of the singular quest of a Surrealist knight-errant who strives to be true to the gentle demands of his lady in a landscape of snares, desolation, incipient madness, and material poverty magically interrupted by moments of extreme beauty. His wife, artist Lyggia Naum, was the inspiration for the title character. In this 1985 masterpiece, penned in the twilight of the totalitarian regime of Nicolae Ceausescu, love, in all its intimate, carnal communion, lights the path through the dark forest, the streets of Bucharest, and the desert swamps. The narrator, speaking from the depths of love and despair, invites the reader to share his quest. Highly praised now and then, Zenobia is an enduring avant-garde classic of twentieth-century Eastern European literature. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Northwestern University Press |
| Returns: |
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