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Negustorul de începuturi de roman

“The Merchant of Novel Beginnings” (title translated by AI)

Matei Vișniec (born 1956)

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One day, bookshops may stop selling novels and sell computers designed to write them, tailored to our secret fantasies. Nobody will care about other people’s books any more: we will each read our own novels, ordered from personal autofiction-writing devices, and talent will no longer be a privilege. The vainest or most frustrated may try to hire a human being to read the novels software has written in their name, and these professional readers, writers themselves, will be so rare that they ask a very high price. Out of a world hooked on the illusion of fresh starts grows a novel made only of beginnings.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

376 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative, Satire (assigned by AI)

First published

2013 by Cartea Românească

Author's age

57 when first published

ISBN

9789732330364 (original)