A rediscovered classic from the author of For Two Thousand Years, this remarkable novel presents nuanced snapshots of love in the early twentieth century. Stefan Valeriu, a young man from Romania who
A new translation of the only novel by lauded Romanian literary critic Matei CălinescuAn NYRB Classics Original It was the late 1950s and the Communist regime of Romania was at its most punitiv
Approaching Romanian literature as world literature, this book is a critical-theoretical manifesto that places its object at the crossroads of empires, regions, and influences and draws conclusions wh
Available in English for the first time, Mihail Sebastian’s classic 1934 novel delves into the mind of a Jewish student in Romania during the fraught years preceding World War II. This literary mast
"The book offers the very first critical biography on Norman Manea, a widely respected writer and multiple Nobel Prize Nominee. It follows two main objectives: an aesthetic interpretation of his liter
‧ Award-winning author with an international profile: Cartarescu is a major European literary voice. He participated in the 2011 PEN World Voices Festival and has won the Romanian Writers' Union Prize
Deported to a concentration camp from 1941 until the end of the war, Norman Manea again left his native Romania in 1986 to escape the Ceausescu regime. He now lives in New York. In this selection of e
Leaving their motherland behind, a professor, his ex-wife, and her lover seek a place and voice in America, where they discover that the shackles of their native totalitarian and nationalist ideologie
In cool, precise prose, and with an unerring sense of the absurd, the four novellas of Compulsory Happiness create a picture of everyday life in a grotesque police state, expressing terror and hope, f
A splendid, violent spring suddenly grips Bucharest in the 1980s after a brutal winter. Tolea, an eccentric middle-aged intellectual who has been dismissed from his job as a high school teacher on "mo
Vanity doubled by vitality, vulnerability mixed in with force, and the fear of dissolution intimately linked with the desperate pride of defeating historical time confer upon Romanian literature a spe
Joseph Strauss (a dentist and bachelor, client of the Eleven Titties brothel and of Der Grose Bar beer cellar) leaves Prussia in the spring of 1866 and follows a captain of dragoons to Bucharest, wher
"Oneirism" wasn't just a new, homegrown form of surrealism, but implicitly a rebuke to the officially mandated socialist and nationalist realism imposed by Ceausescu on all Romanian authors: here was
In the apocalyptic novel Coming from-Key Time, Bogdan Suceava satirizes events in his native Romania since the fateful end of the Ceauseseu regime in 1989. Using three interrelated narratives to illu
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
In a little town in Romania, a mass grave is discovered near the excavations of a Roman fort. Are the dead the victims of a medieval plague or, perhaps, of a Communist firing squad? And why are finge
“Liliana Ursu’s poems are like flowers at the edge of the abyss. They are beautifully clear and precise, but behind them one glimpses the presence of an ineradicable dark.”—Mark Strand“Ursu writes poe
