Sindromul de panică în Orașul Luminilor
“Panic Syndrome in the City of Light” (title translated by AI)
Matei Vișniec (born 1956)
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A living dystopia, written down as it happens by a failed writer who becomes the novel’s hero. The Saint-Médard café in Paris is a modern tower of Babel, a crowd of authors gravitating round Mr Cambreleng, a publisher with no publishing house. One day, sick of the hundreds of “pages of words” written by authors greedy for fame in a world ruled by images and sound, he decrees the death of words and starts collecting dead books. In a city weighed down by its glorious past, strange things happen: a poem conquers the planet, a cat keeps a diary, a love story gets out of hand and dreams escape into reality.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 310 pages in the original
- Genres
- Speculative, Satire (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- France
- First published
- 2009 by Cartea Românească
- Author's age
- 53 when first published
- ISBN
9789732328613 (original)