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Ruxandra Cesereanu<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n

Translated by Alistair Ian Blyth<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Angelus<\/h1>\n

ISBN 978-1-935084-85-3
\n236 pages: $18.00
\nDecember, 2015<\/p>\n

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From the Afterword by Marius Conkan:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ruxandra Cesereanu’s novel\u00a0Angelus<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0raises a series of questions regarding the society in which we live, offering, at the same time, possible solutions to (or at least, hypotheses on) the revitalisation of the sacred and the resurrection of symbolic depth for a (post)humanity characterised by the atrophy of imagination and the hypertrophy of pragmatic reason. Taking as her iconographic model Andrei Rublev’s\u00a0Holy Trinity<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and proposing a postmodern reply to Mikhail Bulgakov’s masterpiece,\u00a0The Master and Margarita<\/em><\/strong>, Ruxandra Cesereanu, in her parable-like novel, begins with the following question: what would happen if angels were to descend upon a Metropolis one day?<\/p>\n

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I have mentioned on various occasions that I generally do not enjoy the navel-gazing novels that seem to be particularly in vogue at this time but much prefer a novel that has a thoroughly original and, preferable, complex story, that is totally unpredictable, that discusses a realm of interesting ideas, that delves into the dark recesses of the human (and, at times, extra-human) mind and raises as many questions as it answers. If you share my view, you will thoroughly enjoy this novel. You will get lost. You will wonder what is going on but you will also smile, you will be surprised, you will have much food for thought and, above all, you will have a first-class read.<\/p>\n

\u2014John Alvey, The Modern Novel<\/a><\/p>\n

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Into the Metropolis and into the Zone fall three angels to challenge the authorities with their muteness and their incorruptible natures. Through this trio, Ruxandra Cesereanu turns a lens on dictators, the military-industrial complex\u00a0and\u00a0urban reality in general. Her weapons are truth and the kind of imagination that spawns garbage-collecting flamingoes, a reimagined paradise and Seraphic chocolate. Buoyant, comic and finally apocalyptic,\u00a0Angelus<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0reminds us that, as in\u00a0The Master and Margarita<\/em><\/strong>, the supernatural is sometimes hard for us humans to bear.
\n\u2014Lawrence Norfolk, author of\u00a0Lempri\u00e8re’s Dictionary<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0The Pope’s Rhinoceros<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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