Octavian Soviany

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• Moartea lui Siegfried

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  Observator cultural 2016 · Shortlist

  Moartea lui Siegfried

  AITitle translated by AI:“The Death of Siegfried”

  Octavian Soviany · 61 when first published

  Novel · 488 pages · Family

  AIAI-generated summary:Siegfried, the Lonely One, MK, Gunter: men living under the implacable sign of heredity, who inherit from their forebears not only the colour of their eyes and hair but also their stories.

• Viața lui Kostas Venetis

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  Observator cultural 2012 · Shortlist

  Viața lui Kostas Venetis

  AITitle translated by AI:“The Life of Kostas Venetis”

  Octavian Soviany · 57 when first published

  Novel · 416 pages · Historical

  AIAI-generated summary:A boy apprenticed to a monastery in late-19th-century Greece turns into a picaro with a split identity, an ascetic converted to a religion of vice who roams from Istanbul and Bucharest to Paris, Vienna and Venice.