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Living Tissue, 10x10

Living Tissue, 10x10

Galaicu-Paun, Emilian
Blyth, Alistair Ian

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Series: Moldovan Literature

HumorLiterary Fiction

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ISBN10: 1628973382
ISBN13: 9781628973389
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: Feb 18 2020
Pages: 346
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
With each chapter embodying a separate Commandment, Living Tissue, 10x10 is both a Decalogue and a ribald, exuberant, deliriously inventive postmodern Decameron, which covers four decades in the life of the protagonist, unfolding against the backdrop of Soviet and post-communist Moldova, from the untimely death of Yuri Gagarin in 1968 to the so-called twitter revolution of 2009. Tens of tragical, comical, fantastical, historical tales intertwine, punctuated by the endless upheavals suffered by twentieth-century Moldova. But the narrative also takes euphoric flight, in episodes that travel as far afield as Paris, Moscow, and Tibet. In Living Tissue. 10x10, Emilian Galaicu-Păun engages in literary origami, bending and blending together real and fictional worlds, abolishing up and down, here and there, past and present, as if in an Escher engraving, alternating narrative techniques, braiding myth, history and literary allusion, transgressing the boundaries of languages and cultures to create a rapturously intricate novel in ten dimensions.

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