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Censored Poems

Marin Sorescu author John Hartley Williams translator Hilde Ottschofski translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Published:26th Jul '01

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Romania's comic genius Marin Sorescu was so popular during the worst of the Ceausescu years that his readings had to be held in football stadiums, and his books sold hundreds of thousands of copies. While his witty, ironic parables were not directly critical of the regime, Romanians used to a culture of double-speak could read other meanings in his playful mockery of the human condition. All this time, however, he was also writing the 'secret poems' he did not dare publish then because - as Dan Zamfirescu commented - 'the gesture would have been the equivalent of suicide'. Censored Poems is a selection from two books published in Bucharest after 1989, including borderline poems censored by the authorities as well as the riskier secret poems censored by the author.

ISBN: 9781852241957

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 205g

128 pages