The French Dadaist, Tristan Tzara was, in fact Romanian and wrote his earlier works in Romanian before switching to French. He did write one novel: Le Solitaire, translated as The Hermit. The first Romanian I read was certainly Eugène Ionesco, the absurdist dramatist, whose most famous works were written in French, though his earlier works were written in Romanian.
Regularly, at around this time of the year, I concentrate on reading books from just one nationality and this year it is Romania.įor most Western readers who know anything about Romanian literature, the writers they have heard of or even read will be expatriates, sometimes, perhaps, without our readers being aware that they were Romanian.
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