New Addition to Bibliography: Romanian-Swiss Author Catalin Dorian Florescu
Visiting scholar Bizuleanu Dana has made a valuable contribution to our project with her entries on Romanian-Swiss Author Catalin Dorian Florescu. In addition to a Bio-Bibliography (click here to view), Dana has also provided descriptions in English for five of Florescu’s important works:
Romanian-Swiss Author Catalin Dorian Florescu
Biographie & Bibliographie (Quelle : www.florescu.ch) Catalin Dorian Florescu wurde 1967 in Timişoara, Rumänien, geboren. 1976 erfolgt die erste Ausreise mit dem Vater nach Italien und Amerika. Rückkehr nach Rumänien, acht Monate später. 1982 erneute Flucht mit den Eltern in den Westen. Catalin Dorian Florescu ist seitdem wohnhaft in Zürich.
Jacob beschliesst zu lieben
Jacob beschliesst zu lieben is Florescu’s latest novel. Following upon biographical escapes (which his first two novels embody), Florescu’s Jacob is an expressive family saga. Beyond being a mere testament for a future, this novel is foremost about the ambiguity of birth and origin. The novel opens in an epic way, in an immediate storm […]
Zaira
In this text, Romania continues to be the storyworld of the spectacular and exotic but also a topos for identity crises. Zaira’s life starts on the countryside ranch where she lives with her mother. The two women have a difficult relationship and the young daughter takes refuge in her imaginary world. It is another spectacular […]
Der blinde Masseur
Turning towards the past, Catalin Dorian Florescu captures individual worlds, extraordinary and miraculous ones. Der blinde Masseur is the story of a blind man, who massages his patients while they read to whim out loud or record literary master pieces in exchange for their treatment. In the village, at the edge of the world, the […]
Der kurze Weg nach Hause
Der kurze Weg nach Hause is a Bildungsroman, as Florescu stated during a reading in the winter of 2012. The novel constructs a spectacular journey towards individuality for Florescu’s characters. Young and addicted to life and excess, Luca and Ovidiu, as protagonists, embark on a journey that takes them from Zürich back to a lost […]
Wunderzeit
Storytelling through the eyes of one’s childhood makes Florescus first novel Wunderzeit a success. His novel is a journey through the past of places and childhood memories: at the Yugoslavian border, the family’s flight from a communist Romania allows the protagonist, Alin, to remember his childhood, his travel with his father to the US for […]