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Liked It Rated 5 stars “This little book of Dumitru Tsepeneag, is a gas. It explores and explodes the idea of perspectives – those of multiple individuals AND multiple perspectives from the single individual. Immersing yourself in it is like landing at the controls in a darkened editing booth to make a film...” see full review » see other reviews »

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  • Rated 5 stars

  “This little book of Dumitru Tsepeneag, is a gas. It explores and explodes the idea of perspectives – those of multiple individuals AND multiple perspectives from the single individual.
  
  Immersing yourself in it is like landing at the controls in a darkened editing booth to make a film that is comprised of your memories and those of someone who lived through the same moments but whom you do not know: you have rolls of footage from every imaginable angle and ones you didn't know were being captured. What do you do with them? Or is the incohesive overlay the power of the piece where without the collapsed perspectives you would only have the banal: your memory.
  
  Tsepeneag's prose is aggressive in it's layering, a true puzzle – with a comfortable stream of consciousness that harkens to Kerouac at his best but is something else entirely.
  
  I hope that the Dalkey Archive will continue to translate this incredible Romanians works.
  
  Philip Swanstrom Shaw
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  Philip Swanstrom Shaw wrote this review Monday, March 9 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No