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Doina Ruști

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Novelist of history, memory, and mystery, where the fabulous grows naturally from the real.
Doina Ruști is a Romanian novelist whose work explores the porous boundary between reality and the fantastic, from contemporary narratives (Ferenike) to 18th-century Balkan worlds and a body of urban legends and mythologies inspired by Bucharest and the Romanian Plain.
One of Romania’s most acclaimed contemporary writers, she is the author of fourteen novels and three short story collections, translated into more than fifteen languages and studied in Romanian schools. Her most awarded novel, The Ghost in the Mill, is a haunting parable of communism.
Her Phanariot Trilogy — The Phanariot Manuscript, The Book of Perilous Dishes, and Homeric — reimagines 1
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Doina Ruști I read something in an 18th-century newspaper. A little saleswoman had a rich aunt and hoped to leave her a substantial inheritance. But her aunt left…moreI read something in an 18th-century newspaper. A little saleswoman had a rich aunt and hoped to leave her a substantial inheritance. But her aunt left her only a slave: a very ugly man. There were many questions here, starting with the slave situation of that man and ending with the possible connection between the merchant and her slave. So I started writing ...(less)
Doina Ruști I would like to read Abdulrazak Gurnah's novels. For now, I'm reading „Abandon", recently translated into Romanian by Litera. But I will read, as usua…moreI would like to read Abdulrazak Gurnah's novels. For now, I'm reading „Abandon", recently translated into Romanian by Litera. But I will read, as usual, particular documents from the 18th century.(less)
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FERENIKE

His death hit me hard, and I was never able to let him go. Even though I’d seen him dead, then buried right before my eyes, the truth was, he’d never really left me. I grew up measuring myself against him, counting the years, thinking, One day, I'll be as old as Tavică was. Just a few more years, and I’ll be just like him. I never stopped to imagine how he might have grown older. Instead, he remai Read more of this blog post »
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“His death hit me hard, and I was never able to let him go. Even though I’d seen him dead and buried, the truth was that he had never really left me. I grew up measuring myself against him, counting the years, thinking: one day I’ll be as old as Tavică was.”
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How does Ferenike relate to memory and guilt in your work? Ferenike grew out of my ongoing interest in memory as something fragile and unreliable. Guilt in this novel is not individual, but transmitted across generations, shaped by political history and unspoken trauma. I wanted to explore how remembering can be both an act of resistance and a burden, especially in a post-totalitarian world.
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"Mai mult decât un roman al prieteniei, Platanos girează o decompensare livrescă, alternând planul evenimențial de suprafață cu cel al așezării simbolice în orizontul imuabil al cărții - un supraplan ce urmează coordonate stoice: „Dacă ai o grădină și" Read more of this review »
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"Cartea îmbină tema prieteniei, a marginalizării, descoperirea de sine și de lume, identitatea și distopia, experiența detectivistică, într-un construct cu bogate elemente intertextuale și cu aluzii la contextul socio-politic al ultimei jumătăți de se" Read more of this review »
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"O narațiune excelent scrisă, care surprinde mai multe coordonate ale devenirii. Dialogurile sunt spumoase, iar autoarea ne devine călăuză într-o „selva oscura” a lumii în continuă metamorfoză.
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“Str. Lipscani este tapetată integral cu chemări, de unde și credința bucureștenilor că cine trece pe-acolo nu se mai întoarce niciodată acasă.”
Doina Rusti, Manuscrisul fanariot

“Omul hăituit capătă o încredere oarbă în destin, răspândită și transformată, cu timpul, într-un un adevărat corpus de superstiții cu caracter geografic.”
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“Nu ştiu de ce, iubirile care încep iarna sunt mai intense şi de cele mai multe ori se termină prost. Mai ales iubirile de Crăciun par făcute dintr‐o suferinţă bătrână.”
Doina Rusti, Homeric
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“The freedom is a tear digging into the flesh. (Doina Ruști -Manuscrisul fanariot)”
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“The love is happiness to be only a rotting cloth in the wound of a stranger. (Doina Ruști -Manuscrisul fanariot)”
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“Trecutul e ca un câine care îţi rupe fără întrerupere turul, în timp ce pre­zentul este o potaie care te păcăleşte s-­o ţii în braţe, făcându-­te să uiţi viitorul - un ogar din rasa afgană. (Doina Ruști - Mâța Vinerii)”
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“Omul hăituit capătă o încredere oarbă în destin, răspândită și transformată, cu timpul, într-un un adevărat corpus de superstiții cu caracter geografic.”
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“Str. Lipscani este tapetată integral cu chemări, de unde și credința bucureștenilor că cine trece pe-acolo nu se mai întoarce niciodată acasă.”
Doina Rusti, Manuscrisul fanariot

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