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Cover of the original edition of Nouă proze vechi. Ficțiuni ilicite

Nouă proze vechi. Ficțiuni ilicite

“Nine Old Prose Pieces: Illicit Fictions” (title translated by AI)

Petru Cimpoeșu (born 1952)

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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.

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About the book

Form
Short stories
Length
336 pages in the original
Genres
Satire (assigned by AI)
Set in
Romania
First published
2008 by Polirom
Author's age
56 when first published
ISBN

9789734609901 (original)