Zenobia

A full-length novel by a member of the Romanian literary avant-garde, Zenobia is the evocation of the singular quest of a Surrealist knight-errant who strives to be true to the gentle demands of his lady in a landscape of snares, desolation, incipient madness, and material poverty magically interrupted by moments of extreme beauty. Love, in all its intimate, carnal communion, lights the path through the dark forest, the streets of Bucharest, and the desert swamps. The narrator, speaking from the depths of love and despair, invites the reader to share his quest.

"One of the most exciting experimental fictions produced in Romania in the last fifteen years or so." --Mihai Miroiu, Cornell University

"Fascinated with surralism or not, any reader would find in Zenobia a rewarding attempt to go beyond the power of words, images, and logic. Like the best in the surrealist tradition, it seeks to narrate the unnarratable and challenges its readers to comprehend the incomprehensible." --World Literature Today

"High metaphysical hilarity from a hitherto unknown master whose work in its strongest moments recalls the best of Beckett, Gombrowicz, and Ionesco." --Kirkus Reviews "Experiments with style and vocabulary abound, and Zenobia benefits from a lush translation that lets the reader enjoy the language fully." --Library Journal