Report on the State of Loneliness (Profusion Gold) - Softcover

'No one until Augustin Buzura, nor anyone after him, has probed so deeply and with such aesthetic courage the abysses and vastness of the ravages that arose from personality splits and the ambivalence of the self in a world that is marked itself with the seal of generalised psychopathy.' Mircea Iorgulescu 'Buzura has an ethical dimension, not just an epic one. Of course, it is not damaging to a novel to have both dimension coexist, but it is very important to possess the former - so rare, so necessary to life as oxygen - to such an [important] degree. The charm of Buzura's prose, once you manage to become accustomed to its taste, comes also, I believe, from the spontaneous fusion between the text and the inner commentary of the reader. It is a kind of purr coming from the fuse of explosives or from fireworks, which accompanies the lines of text, and in which you feel yourself included and, to some extent, an accomplice. The author enters the tenebrous, mysterious and secret labyrinth of life in the most natural manner possible: slamming open to the wall the secret door.' Marin Sorescu 'Augustin Buzura is the same Augustin Buzura as always, grave and lucid - grave to the point of pathos, and lucid to the point of sarcasm.' Alex. Stefanescu 'Buzura has behind him a massive, aesthetically strong oeuvre, and whoever wants to judge the contribution of the 1960s generation of writers and, generally, the strength and value of Romanian after-War literature, cannot ignore his epic work. He is, I have no doubts about it, a great writer. A writer in the line of realists from Transylvania (Slavici, Rebreanu, Pavel Dan), paying special attention to the obscure movements of the individual and, in the same time, attentive, very attentive, to the destiny and psychology of new social categories...' Eugen Simion

"Report on the State of Loneliness" explores, in depth, the Romanian landscape over more than 70 years, subtly locating the history of a myriad of individuals and events within their broader European context, as well as describing the conflicts and opportunities of the post-Accession generation. Comparable in its dynamic narrative to the works of an author like Gunter Grass, "Report" is one of the few works of this kind to have yet come from the literary tableau of the Accession countries.