Petru Cimpoeșu

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• Nouă proze vechi. Ficțiuni ilicite

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  Observator cultural 2009 · Shortlist

  Nouă proze vechi. Ficțiuni ilicite

  AITitle translated by AI:“Nine Old Prose Pieces: Illicit Fictions”

  Petru Cimpoeșu · 56 when first published

  Short stories · 336 pages · Satire

  AIAI-generated summary:Nine stories, some finished before 1989 and the rest written after it, use comedy to probe people’s automatic habits of behaviour and speech, looking for the secret, unfalsified self beneath the layers of social conformity.

• Christina Domestica și Vînătorii de suflete

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  Observator cultural 2007 · ★ Winner

  Christina Domestica și Vînătorii de suflete

  AITitle translated by AI:“Christina Domestica and the Soul Hunters”

  Petru Cimpoeșu · 54 when first published

  Novel · 415 pages · Satire, Speculative

  AIAI-generated summary:Versions, reversals and explanations pile up around Christina Domestica, a woman said to have levitated half a metre above the ground, in a kaleidoscopic story that is at once dark and comic, a black utopia and a report from an unreal present.