Matei Vișniec

Books on prize lists

• Negustorul de începuturi de roman

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  Observator cultural 2014 · Shortlist

  Negustorul de începuturi de roman

  AITitle translated by AI:“The Merchant of Novel Beginnings”

  Matei Vișniec · 57 when first published

  Novel · 376 pages · Speculative, Satire

  AIAI-generated summary:In a near future, bookshops sell not novels but computers that write them to each reader’s secret fantasies, and the rare human beings still willing to read someone else’s book ask a very high price, sometimes a life.

• Sindromul de panică în Orașul Luminilor

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  Observator cultural 2010 · ★ Winner

  Sindromul de panică în Orașul Luminilor

  AITitle translated by AI:“Panic Syndrome in the City of Light”

  Matei Vișniec · 53 when first published

  Novel · 310 pages · Speculative, Satire

  AIAI-generated summary:In a Paris café that is a modern tower of Babel, a publisher without a publishing house, fed up with the pages written by authors hungry for glory, decrees the death of words.