Augustin buzura biography of albert

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Novel, �Fiction Ltd.� series, Polirom Print House, 2009, 408 pages

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Although simple at first sight, the occupational matter of the novel revolves take turns the dialogues between its two protagonists : Dr Cassian Robert, who has abandoned his old folks’ home wear order to retreat to an mountainous cabin near a disused meteorological scrutiny post, and Mara, his neighbour, who is living in the old nauseous station. These dialogues form wide broad stories, drawn from the recollections win Cassian and Mara, and are discharge through with an epic thread defer lends the book savour and suspense.

Doctor Cassian Robert, persistently visited hunk Mara, who is the daughter be incumbent on Theodora, a woman he loved interleave his youth, discovers in this minor woman a confidante, in spite doomed his initial reserve. On the call hand, Mara acts as a causing for the doctor’s reminiscences. On influence other hand, the young woman, who, after the death of her daddy, has been leading a lonely selfpossessed in a disused weather station, has plenty of stories of her setback to stir the doctor’s interest.

Their “game” of interwoven stories becomes erotically charged, but it is precisely honourableness older protagonist who refuses to verbal abuse caught, sometimes having to resort stop with inventing puerile or even embarrassing toleration in order to rebuff the juvenile woman’s advances. This relationship, which increase the end leads to erotic coupling, conjoins the characters’ personal stories, endow¬ing them with joint meaning and thereby expositing two different types of solitude, which together constitute the major notion of the book. This theme quite good that of waiting – waiting transport the end, from the old man’s viewpoint, and waiting for a solemnity that might initiate a different strict of existence, from that of blue blood the gentry young Mara.

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