Coming from an Off-Key Time: A Novel (Writings From An Unbound Europe) 💀 scary.co

The fall of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989 marked, in one famous formulation, the "end of history." In his apocalyptic novel Coming from an Off-Key Time, Bogdan Suceava satirizes the events in his native Romania since the violent end of the Ceausescu regime that fateful year. Suceava uses three interrelated narratives to illustrate the destructive power of Romanian society's most powerful mythologies. He depicts madness of all kinds but especially religious beliefs and their perversion by all manner of outrageous sects. Here horror and humor reside impossibly in the same time and place, and readers experience the vertiginous feeling of living in the middle of a violent historical upheaval. Even as Coming from an Off-Key Time suggests the influence of such writers as Mikhail Bulgakov, the fantastic satirist of the early Soviet Union, Suceava engages the complexities of a quickly changing country in search of its bearings and suspicious of its past. Bogdan Suceava is an associate professor of mathematics at California State University, Fullerton. One of Romanian literature's most promising and original young writers, he is the author of four novels, two books of short stories, and several collections of poems. Alistair Ian Blyth's previous translations include Filip Florian, Little Fingers (2009); Lucian Dan Teodorovici, Our Circus Presents (2009); and Catalin Avramescu's An Intellectual History of Cannibalism (2009).

Release Date 01/26/2011
Authors Bogdan Suceava , Alistair Ian Blyth
Language English
Companies Northwestern University Press
Format Paperback

dark humor , Political Fiction , Contemporary Literature & Fiction

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