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Republica
“The Republic” (title translated by AI)
Bogdan Suceavă (born 1969)
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On the morning of 8 August 1870 a republic is stormily proclaimed in Ploiești and a few of the town’s institutions are occupied; the revolt quickly turns into a fair, with wine barrels broached at crossroads and grills and fiddlers in the centre. That afternoon a battalion brought in by train ends the republic. Nobody dies, and the instigators are acquitted. Drawing on trial documents, the memoirs of the main accused and a satirical sketch by the young Caragiale, then a court copyist in Ploiești who watched the investigation and saw every side bend the truth, the novel reconstructs the episode.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 323 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, Politics, Satire (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Romania, 1870
- First published
- 2016 by Polirom
- Author's age
- 47 when first published
- ISBN
9789734663699 (original)