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Matei Brunul

Lucian Dan Teodorovici

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award.

The year is 1959, one of the darkest periods of Romania s communist regime. Political prisoner Bruno Matei, a puppeteer of Italian ancestry, has been released from jail a broken man, suffering from amnesia. An uneasy relationship forms between Matei Brunul and Bojin, the secret policeman who keeps him under constant surveillance. Gradually, the secret police will try to remould Matei s mind by rewriting his past, turning the puppeteer into a puppet of the new totalitarian order. In parallel, a harrowing second narrative reveals Matei s prison experiences: the story of an innocent man physically and mentally crushed by the totalitarian system, which explodes the manipulative fictions of the secret police one by one.

“. . . exquisitely comic and movingly tragic by turns, while its shifting perspectives in time and narrative point of view keep the reader constantly involved in the story. It is a remarkable achievement by a writer who was born in 1975 and had no personal experience of the era it describes, bearing comparison with classics of the genre such as Milan Kundera’s The Joke.”

Language: English

Pages: 416

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

Release: February 16, 2018

ISBN: 9781943150

ISBN 13: 9781943150

Matei Brunul

Lucian Dan Teodorovici

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award.

The year is 1959, one of the darkest periods of Romania s communist regime. Political prisoner Bruno Matei, a puppeteer of Italian ancestry, has been released from jail a broken man, suffering from amnesia. An uneasy relationship forms between Matei Brunul and Bojin, the secret policeman who keeps him under constant surveillance. Gradually, the secret police will try to remould Matei s mind by rewriting his past, turning the puppeteer into a puppet of the new totalitarian order. In parallel, a harrowing second narrative reveals Matei s prison experiences: the story of an innocent man physically and mentally crushed by the totalitarian system, which explodes the manipulative fictions of the secret police one by one.

“. . . exquisitely comic and movingly tragic by turns, while its shifting perspectives in time and narrative point of view keep the reader constantly involved in the story. It is a remarkable achievement by a writer who was born in 1975 and had no personal experience of the era it describes, bearing comparison with classics of the genre such as Milan Kundera’s The Joke.”

Language: English

Pages: 416

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

Release: February 16, 2018

ISBN: 9781943150

ISBN 13: 9781943150

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