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The zero point of being

Herta Muller denies not. It is not surprising nor denies theme in her new book, Always and always the same uncle same brother, appeared in late 2011 at Humanitas. Hostility is not surprising to find that writing about Romania, but that we fully understand that feeling.


I expected the second meeting with Herta Muller literature with great interest and curiosity, though I knew the theme, will be surprises. But this time the meeting took a little different. Herta Muller has not presented Windisch's story, the protagonist is a big man in the world pheasant or any other characters that populate her writings sad world, but it presented its own existence. Always the same snow and always the same brother is a collection of autobiographical essays, which transpires same Herta Muller lyrical and sensitive, just slightly acidic. And more vengeful.

It was surprising, therefore, that they fully understand the feelings. Even we are glad that, finally, someone says happens. That's only after we had held to the ear and points the finger to other nations. But ultimately, each country is wearing - with shame or indifference - their scarlet letter. A Romanian is generically called communism, and those who have lived and developed in this period are clearly and irrevocably mark.

The same uncle always and always the same brother, volume translated from the German Alexander. Sahighian, Herta Muller speaks both ugly and beautiful a Romania. Romania is the ugly factory, exile and deportation, the sadness, the harassment, the crooked figures, the improvisation: "In Romania, however, did not reach the target without improvising. Some examples: [...] Laws small car roof over his father's coffin with the dead child, and transports it through town or on country roads, the cemetery, like any large luggage. "(158)

Also, Herta Muller speaks about genetics deportation as "Three years after returning from camp I myself was born, deportation had bones, and she slipped and my childhood." (127)

Romania is the beautiful Maria Tanase, Oskar Pastior, M. Blecher and Emil Cioran, who has dedicated this book even read an essay. But their beautiful Romania is actually a sad story. A beauty which comes from suffering. For example, the story of Oskar Pastior, whose life is lived in the cradle Leo Auberg breath. At the age of 17 years (just like mother Herta Muller) was deported to five years in a camp in Ukraine, emotional moment that author successfully manages to surprise and in an essay entitled "Application streets thin": "There has There is no suitcase. When Oskar Pastior her bags to be deported, dismounted gramophone in boxes lined inside with velvet and cork stopper with hole in the handle was. Gramophone boxes then leave the camp. "(129) Another improvisation!

Similarly we can describe the story Herta Muller. On September 27, 2010, the acclaimed and controversial dialogue Liiceanu the Athenaeum, the writer said: "I feel my luck came despite the inversion of trouble"; chance to leave, to succeed in life, to find their place and not remain between.

Herta Muller pay particular attention to language, the same volume of essays always snow and always the same brother is in fact a series of memories, wounds dressed in metaphors, as is the entire opera writer. In the above-mentioned dialogue, it says: "While writing, I did my tongue. Language, if it is able to express life, language is all those who do not write. Must use their language and only if their language up in some way reach the so-called 'literature', 'poetry', 'poetic atmosphere'. "

Still living in the past. What is the solution? To hide it, forget it or show it with your finger? How can we reconcile, reconcile with something I was! In 2010, the Romanian Athenaeum, Herta Muller has justified the whole literary activity: "If you write about these things, I primarily do it for myself. As I have no choice. You have to arrange my life the past so I can take her to the one I have now gone. I do not want and can not compel anyone to attend. [...] In front of each card is a free man. "

Istanbul, a melancholy map

Turkey's first Nobel laureate for literature and his writings have grouped into a series of author Polirom. Orhan Pamuk brings Dante and Joyce discussed when talking about influences could not deny two of his novels. How the Guardian recommend Istanbul: Memories and the city's work as an introduction into the atmosphere and how great everything was bustle on account of the book of memoirs in recent months have been hard to resist the temptation of reading "evil" during the session.

And look, they opened the book! If the title we move our European bluntly in the City just in Istanbul, do not imagine that the first page looks like a squeeze of sultans and harems, Muslims making their place among the colorful clothes and the smell of kebabs or other signs I know that Turkish . No. On the contrary, we find Instanbulul first in passing and accepting lavish decorative subtle background role to look as advantageous "character" that is applied (as after a basic principle of the painting): Orhan Pamuk himself. The city is initially for the sake biography writer, that only later to reach a recalculation of influences: "(...) when talking about me talking about Istanbul and Istanbul when talking about talking about me".

About himself, about Orhan - this time I'm too handy last name if I browsed all life - I learned the rule of long sentences, as he "played" the top 20 (and less) years. How mystifications childhood convinced him that he has a twin, whose existence - metaphysics, of course - was cause for consolation whenever Pamuk have a family day wrinkled, was aroused need to ensure a world reserve. Then, I had fun fighting threats and "brotherly" (the most common stake - mother's attention) of the youngest Orhan came out almost always defeated, room-museum grandmother was a visual delight filled with ironies that caught attention of wonder, in fact, the whole atmosphere of the "block Pamuk". Hidden joy to witness the disasters of the Bosphorus, separating the "neghiobii class" episode "I was also a painter" (need for recognition and checkbook made his first passion), decline of family, first love.

Istanbul stalks them all to take partake in "melancholy you look with candle" and a great appetite for the helmet swallow whole, how about Pamuk, he caught the spirit left him, so just only after passing all these thresholds depending on the city they understand it. Istanbul seems to be happy and safe world of Pamuk. In fact, Istanbul seems happy to be everything to everyone for being so full of contrasts, can not assemble an identity for himself and apparently would overwhelm yourself. Or simply researching opinions and inevitably becomes part of them.

And then Pamuk has no other way to Istanbul to help reintregeasca than isolating it in a room with walls, ceiling and floor with mirror and let him absorb his reflections. Surround him with his artists, including the "four lonely melancholic writers" - Kemal Kahya poet, journalist and historian Ekrem Kocu interested parties, memorialist Abdulhak and novelist Ahmet Hamdi Sinasi Hisar Tapinar - rewards with many pages. The same concern treats and local foiletonistii who constantly grinding air Istanbul, but omits any feedback provided by foreign artists - puts it "under Western eyes" as confirming the title of a chapter (painter Melling, Flaubert Gide are some random examples).

Pamuk eventually make an arithmetic mean between all these - and you leave me now a daring escape morphological - and one you Istanbuluri patents man's feeling of the artist doubled. Such gestures can not only come from a boundless compassion towards this Istanbul, Pamuk says, has long tried to find a measure, but has not yet decided between Orientalism and Occidentalism, unable to overcome some sensitivity (often made on the account history "failures" of the Ottoman Empire) which, unfortunately, make it a city complex. Then, it is inevitable: "Melancholy is, in Istanbul, so a sense voice for indigenous music, a key word for poetry, and a certain outlook on life, a certain state of mind and, in general, everything suggests that" material "with the city to what it is.". Material shot in black and white, continue Pamuk, enabling us to understand pointless dozens of photos (from the author's personal archive, as well as professionals belonging to Ara Guler) who arranged tones nonculoare, accompany the text.

Thus, the universe is not appealing his exoticism, but the intimacy with which you are treated, with access to views not only enjoyable, but also the vulnerabilities (the ruins are signs recurrent case) and of a life of Istanbul. Do not feel tourist. In fact, is much more than that: it's one of the cards that you would like to stay with everything.

Stigmata - graphic novel

Graphic novel Stigmata (Art Publishing), by Lorenzo Mattotti and Claudio Peaches, brings forward a metaphor in the story of a lost man, a flawed man fell into a passion for drinking, the debauchery, the iniquity, but who also appear in wounds hands the nails that have been beaten once in the hands of Jesus. This makes it seem a saint and bearing against other miraculous powers. Although this character can not see himself more than a miserable, a brutalized society, an individual who fails to raise the impossible.

Essential problem could be inferred from the divine and the earthly issues relating to mess with that man does not fight, but let them stolen and that of the body, as the only man who can decide the vitiation of his body, who coordinates the movement, which Keep driving pleasure can to destroy the soul, as any excess leads to perdition. As in any fight, you always have to be defeated. The Christian vision of man is made to fight with passion, the hard part, but not to evade the kinds of tricks.

As the French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas said "pain and suffering in all its grades, is impossible to detach us from the time of existence", because man trying to escape the vices, and what succeeds then recover gradually by the nature of suffering physics. It's like a closed circuit, as a bargain that it is man's soul, with its existence. What exists is subject to fears, imperfection or continue search of detachment and compassion. Body is chosen as an emblem of life, is an accounting of what succeeded or not. That man avoids the vice existence amine suffering through "tranquillizers", trying to resist the forgotten soul struggle with pain. Man barred lucidity, and it represses as depriving us of our limitations own right. Thus, in substance, we can not make more choices than we have been given to do.

The essence of the Christian story has a stake. The wounds of hands protagonist means that despite any problems, before any hopelessness, Providence watches and anything that gets to happen is we try.

Another idea would be extremely important not to abuse the flesh at the expense of soul. Near the end of certifying a character to the Word of God, that is an instance saving, a milestone of hope for a distance of futility.

Graphics (which belongs to the legendary designer Lorenzo Mattotti) is suggestive images are captured clothing. There is a hardness of artistic expression. Comic play is changed to gray human existence, with that shade into that often falls. Faces that seem to leave the piece of paper that held the string characters. They could be what are not, but are in how they choose to be.

The man who confused his wife with a hat

A book about the overthrow of the human mind, a right book that kept my curiosity at high levels until the last page. I thought the book doctor in Oliver Sacks, The man who confused his wife with a hat, reprint the Humanitas in 2011 (and translated to us too late, considering that in 1985 already appear in bookshops in London and New York)

I like books that, between the lines, risking some empty space for me, just to give me satisfaction and I write them myself. I like books that have confidence in my reader and subtlety that I do my whim to overlook those absurdities that plunge from time to time, pulling for me all come in their pages. Well, the man who confused his wife with a hat I had so much freedom of movement, that led me to wonder whether the much put in my sentences. However, I did not even replace the ambition of one who tells me stories. That the narrator recognized wholly in British-born neurologist and psychologist, established in America, Oliver Sacks (the folding picture book is explained by the authenticity of content, announced in the preface even the author), you probably know it the covers of books and Muzicofilia and awakening to life.

Mentioned above some "stories", well, it's a word enthusiast, such as "studies" are looks resigned to clear the nature of this book, which approximates the location and style between the technical-scientific and belletristic.

Structurally, the book combines four parts: losses, excesses, Transport and the poor in spirit world, bringing together analog situations of people who have unwittingly derived reality, and if to escape something politically incorrect normality. Sick people, in fact patients of the doctor Sacks real characters, usually without scenery, which the book does not seek to invent tolerance of social integration (they are usually self-sufficient or times unable to understand their neurological deviations and thus unaffected in a disturbing degree of it), but plans to ensure their innocence to be different. And if Sacks is far from being moralistic concerns, if not allies of Extrasensory rhetoric, what he succeeds brilliantly in return is to induce (important: not through language) prohibition to entertain us at the expense of patients, the they terrify us, for you see, in fine, as Sacks's mad goofy.

The first interaction with the title of this book, I could not help but let him call me metaphorically. The man who confused his wife with a hat and could only vaguely intriguing and hiding, of course, who had pondered depths. When I arrived in the middle of the homonymous story (though for my taste too eager located right in the first pages of the book) I found myself reading about a man who literally distinguished from an accessory image of a woman and that her foot entangled with the shoe. In fact, he could not understand the whole idea of ​​collective, entering the world through isolated features, inferring a more than a direct sensing. "Visually, it was lost in a world of inanimate abstractions" lost his reason any basic skill to handle issues, concrete. Lived, however, flawless music. Suffered agnozie (disorder manifested by inability to recognize people and objects). But the story remains somewhat disappointing suspended, it feels like a state and less as a narrative pace (and I refer to issues related to end of tail divagatiile over and artistic, a little shy).

Less noted was possessed Sacks in (this time stopped in excesses). Syndrome (super) Tourette makes a woman look distorted receiver of all gestures, grimaces belonging to others. Scene (for it is one) is even more impressive, with both runs in the street, away from peace interpretive neurologist's office. "As everyone, she loses her own self, becoming one". And when, after all imitation, was filled with others' regurgitation erupted in a vast, pantomime, the identity of the last 50 people guzzle a posedasera have popped out ".

Not an exercise of imagination is required to break even chance that the whole reality of the breast, the talc is not life, is life itself. And that goes for all the 24 cases collected by Sacks. We found real source of meaning, sometimes exploited enough. I felt creep Sacks, be wary of momentum in the literature is a mandatory, generally preferring to stay in the capsule explicabilului by science, and if it goes indrazneli impression and feeling usually happens speaking on behalf of other people account of universal culture (certain people). Basically, Sacks show shyness to become a fictional being, and that's a shame because it's the last bit of the book needs to look full. The truth is that he improvizieaza too much, and that vigilance is it not fantasy. Plus, eventually it's hard to believe he wants to teach me medicine and hence its reserves. I learned some interesting things and relatively accessible neuroscience field, I know now that Korsakoff's syndrome, which is afemia, proprioceptiunea so I did a "Postscript" compared with other patients in most chapters, but something makes me think that the point Sacks's not just to reproduce reality and that they keep some reserves for itself that I would be able to enjoy myself.

Twins who communicate through numbers, the woman can not feel your own body or that he heard music radio whenever the head tilts, the man who has removed several decades of life, people who have lost all capacity to understand written or spoken words, but perfectly able to understand the message of gestures - they believe all excuses. But as I said at the beginning, as readers, I give a little more recovery work. "Metaphors not only for the condition of modern medicine, but modern man," as New York Magazine says. I agree. And yet ... could be more.

I give my name and tell Fowles

If before the love stories were accompanied by prudish caution not to say too much for some time now enslave us cynical embarrassment not afford to win such a subject than as a minor, which requires additions. The French Lieutenant 's Woman, John Fowles accompanies such emotion giving fiction a few indrazneli meant to break our literary myths. It may be that cynical?

If full artistic freedom, even in the midst of a mess of strictly literary - I doubt you did not guess how this workaround twentieth century - an author dare to open our story characters traditionally stuck in a wisdom that looks good, but twisting them selves, we are entitled to seek to distinguish something mischievous in his gesture, a certain dose of foresight in our approach is indicated.

For all the hubbub of this novel is the theme of how, and not of EC, noticeable trend since the beginning of modernism (however, the beloved French Lieutenant us up until postmodernism), which not only allowed but even encouraged to play writer literary form, which is trying to do as much as possible by seducing and stimulating. Not that Fowles would have gathered hastily characters or the premise of social classes of blends bold Victorian period it would be only enough narrative full of sap, but the author has added their literary usages some special ideas, foam literary theory disguised as lightness of observations that will not necessarily precious.

But let's take it step by step and know first pretexts. Of all first Fowles chose 1867, the town of Lyme Regis, bundled with some names (even them) entirely respectable: that of aristocratic Charles Smithson and the bourgeois origins of his fiancée, Ernestina Freeman, Sarah Woodruff, the former governess and recently a lady companion in business such as charities against evil, then there is broad-minded doctor, Grogan and Sam and Mary, servants with serious intent, they say. Views calm, thoughtful conversations arranged in mind before they uttered a suitable bride and not less beautiful and spiritual wealth - all it left Charles, recommending him as an archetypal Victorian. As in his description would be hard to find something that would trigger a serious plot, we turn our attention to a character so clearly pregnant, she had to pass in the title of the book, Sarah or "poor Tragedy", one that varies between love and French Lieutenant bitch - like giving it in those times, just as disturbing and defamatory.

I still feeling the intrusion show a couple originally from us is backed sympathy, Sarah reveals malfunctions easily, of course, wrong as a term whose acknowledge that it was collectively defined, more vigorous than today. Sarah, on the very first scene we see isolated on a pier, wearing a casual fashion, wearing always sickly gestures of abstract (always feels the need for visual contact with the sea) and oscillating between her inclination to become a pure being intrinsic and start to provide a representation of the right of self shaken, she's the one who dares to break the symmetry of Victorian times. Charles can not even enter them pointless, although near Sarah, in part justified by the psychoanalytic cure him he wants to apply it surprise savior superiority. But Sarah does not want to be saved, on the contrary, it "works" challenging them to come "- As you punish? (...) - To be what compelled me to be alive. A procrisa. ". She wants to be an active part of her destiny, even at the cost of helping to lead to perdition. Not assign any of its existence by "it was to be" becoming downright annoying to other characters by ostentation which gives them unusual avant depression and the lack of need for recognition (thyme), a truly bizarre her era, amid so busy taming of industrialization and the monarchy that makes it relatively reasonable claim anyone's individuality is socially accepted.

Simple still be said: a novel in which characters appear and disappear at the right time, blending would make no more than a common sense of reality in and keeping the distance between them that the lack of communication. Without mingling out of place. But most importantly - a novel handle by a narrator who submit a contract to update the reader: the narrative separates appreciating currency and lack of authority in reverse, which happens to be a character as can be advantageous as invested with all the rule their gestures fictional.

And that although the first chapters really had little patience with the intervention of a stubborn narrator belletristic spoil the whole picture if coming from another world, in which he seemed concerned only - very embarrassing when - To excuse this . But it was just a boring paradox.

"I do not know. History they tell is entirely imagined. I created these characters have not been only in my mind. But I pretended to know what's now the head of my characters as I know most secret thoughts. " Carevasazica tricked us about, that is to fall into sin of disregard easy, and when there he was given the coup de grace is canceling one. Pour more story, the reader is nestled in it and then they say that everything is fiction, that makes sense not to believe in its reality and that he, the narrator, has to offer guidance to the imagination and gave the throne of work envisioned .

Thus, the characters themselves are left to invent versions of the story, showing us that they are viable, at least as deeply touched as those of the author entitled to write. Fiction degenerates from the moment that is told, "is language which speaks, not the author," as Roland Barthes announce "the author's death." As one that, unlike the French structuralist, Fowles does not pay this death with "birth reader", but rather, slightly conservative, to secure, as I said before, the characters all their power of creative action. However, it can not be reproached for his negjijeaza reader, which makes virtually all fads: "The only way, if I take can not be accused that I mixed in clash to come, is to depict two versions of it (our story) ". Novel forks, making plausible expectations severely differentiated between them by the end subterfuge double (which did not shrink or the 1981 film version, starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons).

The book is not tailored after block

As we anticipate the launch in Iasi volume Preview Life is tailored after block, Aurora Liiceanu presents short form prose, uninformed public, psychological concepts and theories. But we are dealing with narrative texts with literary ambitions.

Even if the nature of descriptive and explanatory text takes us to apply, as I said above, notice the first person narratives, many texts are almost dialogue at the end who feel the need to add fill to the words, thus enriching the cases and casuistry. Another kind that I found in this volume is log ("Frau Lola and her world", "Matrioana, pasta, owl and jerry"), which is proposed as an example or as public support for a psychological demonstration.

Text publishing, through its urban nature issues ("right first come, monopoly niche or personal brand?") Is present and he wrote much pathos and feeling good. Do not miss any study of folklore ("whiff of kitsch in a Peasant Wedding"), but this specific analysis is thin, the text now only subjective observations. What seems more valuable than any other text here is "child - use a" study about a sense of new creatures, how to grow and educate him (one of the conclusions is that today "having children is a must!").

The weakness of the volume that I want to emphasize it, is redundancy of statements ("children should not be raised by grandparents") and even sameness of others ("complications it brings alive a child of divorce are high"). It is already a truism, I had the feeling that some psychological explanation addresses of people who have even minimal experience of life. However, it is natural for the marketability of this volume question: why is number 1 since it first appeared? It's pretty obvious that this book is addressed to a female, be it so promptly to light appearances? I read very little in incite to Radulescu may issue comments about her writing, but readers assume we are talking about the same in this case.

Besides announced early texts (which are valid, but not a must, as to quote the author), the remaining compositions are ethereal; here Liiceanu Aurora seems to be shooting a grandmother telling stories to grandchildren. The final impression is that of an uneven volume that could be "squeezed".

Sons and Lovers

Family Chronicle and bildungsroman. Psychological investigation, love and sexuality. Contradictions, oppositions ... realism and symbolism. All these means - and beyond - were used by the English writer DH Lawrence novel Sons and Lovers (ed Polirom Collection Top 10 +).


Sons and Lovers appeared in 1913, is the third novel by DH Lawrence. It consists of two parts, the first being a family chronicle (Gertrude and Walter Morel, along with their four children), and the second a bildungsroman (focusing on the evolution of Paul Morel, the character whose name was originally used as title for the novel). We have to do so with a study of family and social classes, and the first sexual experiences (presented by good language and allusions more or less veiled).

My first reading book was in English and I thought the title would mean "Sons and Lovers" (I had to find something later that the book bore that title in previous versions). It seemed more appropriate for ambiguity keep English version. But I missed a detail that I discovered during the reading in Romanian, we use the term "lovers" might inferred presence of a physical relationship between sons and mother. In other words, could involve the idea of ​​incest, but the relationship between William and - especially - Paul Gertrude is purely spiritual. Moreover, throughout the novel is stressed many times that Paul and his mother behaved like two lovers ("Generally, [Paul] does not come away from his mother's side, the park had been lovers" - p 226 ).

Based on the above, we reach one of the main topics tackled by Lawrence: Oedipus complex. This theory characterizes relations between the two sons (William and Paul) and their mother. Love ends up smothering mother, when boys reach adulthood, they remain enslaved and can not love another woman. William became engaged, but Gertrude Morel not accept on face (superficial Louisa Lily Denys Western) and the young man is facing a situation that you destroy: body belongs fiancee, but the mother's soul. Once lost identity, William dies. The situation is somewhat different with Paul. Miriam, who falls from the first time, fighting for his soul, arousing jealousy mother. As for Clara, the two young lover, she offers love but fails to hold it altogether, just as he wished. Paul does not find fulfillment and often do not know what he wants or feels. Both Miriam, and Clara loves them but hates them ... hated it sometimes feels to the mother. Of course, nothing like the hatred he feels for the father, he wants to beat him, reaching even to death and desire.

Another important element worth mentioning is autobiographical dimension. Paul Morel is a projection of DH Lawrence and the close relationship between author and mother of the basis for creating novel. Writer's family situation is mirrored by Morel family: his father was a miner (and Lawrence describe the same feelings of hatred towards him that they try to Walter Paul Morel), were always strained ties between the parents, mother - though came from a higher social class husband - was related to the house and raising children. Miriam Leivers was created in the image of Jessie Chambers (first girlfriend of Lawrence, which his family has never accepted). Mother's death the writer is also used in building novel.

We are dealing with a partial omniescienta, especially in the first half. In the second predominant view of Paul (personage with contradictory personality), which raises a question mark about the credibility, especially when it comes to how he sees people around it. Paul is unable to feel fulfilled, to escape the mother's influence and love someone else. Oscillating between love and hate and judge especially women who come into contact with its changing light semtimentelor.

I can not conclude without mentioning the oppressive atmosphere that accompanies you throughout the reading. With one exception, there is a fragment diameter opposed to the rest of the book. Pages 34-35 presents superb moments of revelation, a second baptism in nature. Why and how ... you can unlock the secret alone.

A man enters the room

A man enters the room, bestseller author's debut novel of love history, was appointed the newspaper Los Angeles Times "Book of the Year" in 2003. In 2010 New Yorker magazine included it on Nicole Krauss among the top 20 writers Americans under age 40. His novels are translated into over 35 languages, and in autumn this year, a man in the room has been translated into Romanian and published in Humanitas.

If memory we would suffer an accident and memories would burn into the fire or be dissolved into dust and light, the period of our lives we choose to save? What time we want to remain forever inscribed in the eyes of the soul? The main character of this novel seems that had the right to choose, was simply thrown into the vortex of his new crazy life, and the idea incarnand doubt: most times, people living with life doubts. Sometimes self-doubt, sometimes he questions the morality and sometimes have regrets. Then, is eternal doubt about how well we know each other: "'And, in fact, what it means to be loved?" Samson wondered, "if not to be understood? What else but to be touched deeply by the other? "[...] How could you wake up every morning and can be recognized by another, when yourself you hardly recognize?". This problem seems to preoccupy the writer Nicole Krauss in her address so that in many of his works, starting with a man in the room, closing and then even more in love and culminating during the past history novel, Great House.

Samson Greene, a young and admired professor at Columbia University, is found wandering in the Nevada desert. When his wife, Anna, arrives at the hospital where the man is hospitalized to remove a brain tumor, discovers that his memories after the age of twelve are irretrievably lost. From the first moments of lucidity, Samson will start fighting with the past and especially now with the not found. For him, self-consciousness itself is "une intense jouissance", a continuous feeling renaissance, joy and conviction initiation singularity. He becomes, gradually, "a man who is not blinded by a lifetime of memories that can appreciate the power of one".

Somewhere far away, in the heart of the desert, a man recorded memories, creating a huge library of human memory and to not lose, learn how to write those memories in one place where it is ensured survival: in the minds of other people. A purely scientific project, but behind which Dr. Malcolm Ray believes he has found the key to human compassion. To enter into another person ... He believes also that he found a way to inspire empathy, a kind of cosmic belonging, a way for people to be immunized against alienation, as they are now vaccinated against diseases. The apparent solution - like image created by heat mirage - arising from the desert that had brought him in this state Samson was a man conscious of danger, knew that those skills could be used for negative purposes. But we could do anything if we let loose of fear? Human knowledge is evolving whether we like it or not, is pulled forward by their own strength. If you are not close to its tip, then it is another. And this man subordinated his passion, doing what he thought to do.

As the years passed we became more selective memory, as if he wants to confirm that we use about ten percent of the brain, the rest is disposed of with our unconscious genetic. Perhaps, however, where the stored memories is limited, so that some go "to sleep" as spies infiltrated into enemy territory. From time to time, any "Proustian madeleine" cause outbreaks, outbreaks of long forgotten caves of our minds. To think, therefore, twice before putting fresh white sheets over memories over old debts. Think again before you pull the curtains, before memories hide in a hidden pocket, and I could find broken over the years ...

Poe's stories

Edgar Allan Poe is my family more because of horror stories, we discover something new and fascinating in every reading. Beetle volume of gold and other stories (recently appeared in the collection of Top 10 +) brings together works more or less known, offers a wider perspective on ideas developed by Poe (find, among others, humor, fantasy, grotesque, terror , mystery).

Beetle of gold (The Gold-Bug) is the kind of story you expect something, only to discover that is treated completely different topic. Scarab who is said to be gold (and who is mentioned in the footnotes that the insect is imaginary), is a pretext for a description of treasure hunters led by William Legrand, but presented through the eyes of a narrator-in Like many other stories of Poe, remain unnamed. Superstitions they invoke Jupiter (old black former slave, whose attitude amused) prove to be unfounded. As readers we expected you to something supernatural, especially given the similarity beetle with a human skull and the apparent link between insect bite and Legrand's strange behavior. The most interesting part I found cryptograms used and describe how it can be deciphered based on letter frequency. By substituting symbols, you get the message that shows the way to treasure (unfortunately, the translation index contains some errors easily identified on the original version you watch).

Mystery of Marie Roget (The Mystery of Marie Roget - A Sequel to The Murders in the Rue Morgue) and stolen letter (The Purloined Letter) are detective stories. In both detective C. Auguste Dupin is present. The first starting point is a real crime (murder of Mary Cecilia Rogers, spent in New York); report fiction and reality is constantly supported by footnotes. They try deciphering a puzzle by analyzing the evidence presented by police, but the information (sometimes contradictory) collected from newspapers. Dupin's murder mystery untie Marie Roget, Poe pretext used to analyze the facts. In Letter stolen emphasis is mainly on the relationship between French and Dupin polistii. It's described nothing violent ideas are discussed by the narrator and detective. Dupin underscores the importance of ability to think like your opponent. In this case, he solved the mystery of the stolen letter as re how the minister thought (the one who took his letter).

Balloon hoax (The Balloon-Hoax), recognize, not remember my attention for long. Is presented in only three days crossing the Atlantic by Monck Mason, in the balloon. As if to give more credibility to the story, the balloon is described in detail. Provides information about the storm that made possible the journey and on vessels seen on the ocean. The news appeared in media and irony feels that newspaper readers are treated just looking sensational.

A one thousand and two story Scheherazade (The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade) wants to be a continuation of the 1001 nights. Scheherazade did not want to end their stories and their boring husband, who ordered to be killed. No shortage of irony and humor, all things and acts described it in a way that often amazes, but does not seem plausible, are explained in footnotes (which are real stories, books, modern inventions, etc.).

Taut Mellonta hiding behind humor (and a certain indifference) image of a future not too rosy. The letter (dated April 1, 2848) found a bottle floating in the sea are given clues futurienilor society, in which matter masses, not the individual: "We live in an age so enlightened, not even conceive that there what we call individual "(p 171). And such an attitude is perfectly normal for futurienii not understand how their predecessors thought of "antiquity" (Poe's contemporary). Narrative tone is very naturally and does not change even to the end (un) happy.

The story of rugged mountains (A Tale of the Ragged Mountains) are treated topics as mesmerism, occultism, hypnosis, transmigration. The story is ambiguous and can not know if Bedloe's adventure really happened. He had hallucinations Bedloe the consumption of morphine or had a vision of a past life? The story of Dr. Temple, and the similarities with his fate Oldeb, increase the mystery.

Buried alive (The Premature Burial) is a horror story, the author uses the fear that people could be buried alive, fear widespread in the nineteenth century. The story starts with some real cases that come to support the idea that terror that he mastered the narrator's self. It suffers from catalepsy and is obsessed with death, which does not allow to live a normal life. It all culminates when it seems that indeed was buried alive. The atmosphere is more than gloomy, gruesome images, suspense keep readers tense ... only to discover that the narrator finds himself in a boat, not in danger and his reactions are satirized. Shock it back to life practically, out of a "grave" in which one is buried. Escaped the terror, he begins to really live.

As in heart and says that the mystery (which, unfortunately, missing from this volume), and if black cat story (The Black Cat) we are probably dealing with a mad narrator, lacking credibility, who reveal one murder. Here, the narrator-character blame alcohol for moral decay and actions. The whole story is a confession (do not know to whom) they can not know for sure how true and how it is fantasy. Black cat image is the central symbol, there is superstition (invoked by the narrator's wife) that they are actually witches. The first cat is called Pluto (Roman god of the underworld), although it was his favorite animal, her narrator an eye out in a huff. Everything was better in master dies, loses control and becomes violent. Then, the cat is hanged, but remains as a testament to the cruelty animal narrator printed image on the wall burned. Even the fire, which acts as purifier, can not erase mistakes character that does nothing to get rid of perversity and hatred.

Do not miss the fantastic, Tzvetan Todorov defined as any event occurring in our world and appears to be supernatural, requires someone who knows only hesitation natural laws, faced with an apparently supernatural event. Elements thus appear both in rational and the irrational. We can not fully explain the presence of the second cat (too similar to Pluto), nor how it came to be built with the body and remain in the wall without the narrator to have realized. He often tries to find logical explanations for everything that happens around him, but this attempt seems to be the product of mind of a man is seized with madness, do not feel guilty because he killed his wife. Finally, the atmosphere of mystery remains intact, no answers, only more questions than it.

Virtual life of Kaos Moon

Literature not you at all costs to astearna between the covers of a book, despite some skepticism, there is today at home and enter a "www" and a "blogspot.com" - a proof of his novel Stefan Caraman Letters to Rita . Athenaeum Tatarasi makes Saturday, December 17, at 18 o'clock, launch, actor Daniel Basil engaging to read excerpts from the novel.

Being one of the famous writers that take into superstition, as it is ominous to talk about a book before it concluded, Stefan Caraman, namely Kaos Moon, grew up in a year (since December 2009) blog or, Close to the Edge, even in the public eye virtually a novel. Moreover, he saw an advantage to write his visitors attended, whose comments, no matter how relevant or not, would have seemed misplaced at times, they started Caraman unexpected creative ideas that fit well with which was recorded keyboard already.

Ration of a page and half a day was the only measure of discipline that Kaos Moon himself has imposed it, otherwise, nepierzand time with systematization of any kind. And even with blunt expressive, author appeared "shell" not infrequently vulgar novel language suggesting that a permanent self leads nowhere, at best hinder the message that it schimonoseste.

Publishers refused twice, Letters to Rita was eventually published in Tracus Arts and has already reached its third edition. Meanwhile the blog alive and not too exciting: once completed, the novel does not need the virtual space, warm like a womb, which was subsequently closed, following that during its launch at Bookfest 2011 and still give a few days thanks, to promote. For, after all, essential novel was turned.

Principal of his character, Nic Labis, the writer of home design it as a "free man, as Beckett only able to find", we learn that like any man who disappears with no story, no matter how flat or lacking sense would be it. The point is to prohibit the self: "Nic is vulgar for life among the false saints oppress him. Nic do things that we are not allowed to do, though ... Nic is a small Jesus washed us from sin of hypocrisy. ". A funny sayings to tragedy and vice versa, that is neither free nor pathetic - in this way a blog dictate Kaos Moon, where he had complete freedom to write for any other waiting outside his. "Donating and" writing a pseudonym (Kaos Moon is the name of a band of the 90s), did not matter that many books that he had already published Caraman, including: Soul Rocker (1996), missed three starts (1999 ), Zapp (1997), Saturday afternoon at the country (1998), Piano Man (2000), Rudi and other pieces of Solitude (2005), Colonia Angels (2006), IM (2008), as played shows no text author did not pressure (in 2004 director John Sapdaru the same Athenaeum Tatarasi mounted piece Dead and alive, arrived at Prague International Festival of Theatre and Drama Festival Apostrophe in Timisoara Romanian).

Strictly speaking, writing plays, poetry, prose long, critical and over and know what is happening in the business world is not a small thing, although we saw it was intriguing enough that Kaos Moon identity due to which people do all kinds of assumptions. Today the book is sold and Caraman is considered one of the most innovative contemporary Romanian writers, although he's not the first to write a novel on the blog. Mustafa's Zully the success of this plan that resulted in the book grapes were ripe in its absence, Belle de Jour's Intimate Adventures wrote a luxury London prostitutes, novelist Jose Saramago - Last book. Even in Romania has already experienced this phenomenon many times to bring the literature into a nonconformist, most significant being and what did the few young writers - Dan Sociu Adrian lame, Mitos Micleusanu, Vera Ion, Dorin Cozan, Catalin Lazurca - who have tried novel writing skills collectively rotating (foiletONline) complex Europe.

But returning to our Letters to Rita, it is recommended to reserve a book launch held at the Athenaeum website - entry is free - especially as this thing comes with a chance to win an autographed Stephen Caraman volume. Or by Kaos Moon - tell us how you signed.