Disco Titanic: Roman - Softcover

Gheo, Radu Pavel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3948156832 ISBN 13: 9783948156831

Publisher: KLAK Verlag, 2024

Synopsis

Vlad Jivan grows up on the border with Yugoslavia. The freedom that emanates this country symbolises for him everything that is missing in communist Romania. It is the model that seems closest to the West. On a trip there in the summer of 1989, he falls in love with the girl Marina and finds friends in Split, but becomes entangled in a terrible act. More than 20 years later, now publisher and family father, he meets the old clique drawn by the Yugoslav wars again. The world on both sides of the border has become a different and not only his own illusions have fallen apart. Disco Titanic is a brilliant novel from Romania about youth, music and dreams and what remains of it in the face of change and war. A universal book on myths and nostalgia of European regions. "I know that there are enough people in the former Yugoslavia who refuse to remember the past, be it out of frustration and disappointment, be it out of hatred and contempt. But I still know something: that here, in addition to the border with the former Yugoslavia, there is a generation or even two generations that remember Bijelo Dugme and the myth of the prosperous and tolerant federation with nostalgia and bitterness. One stems from the memory of their youth and the other from the disappointment of those who belonged in a certain way to this country and this world without having lived in Yugoslavia. We, those of here, still wonder how the massacres were possible in Kosovo, Sarajewo, Krajina, Srebrenica and so many other places whose names make me shudder. We feel frustrated and betrayed." Radu Pavel Gheo, Bila jednom jedna zemlja, 2004 "The text of Radu Pavel Gheo draws us through the merciless collective history of Yugoslavia. From such a reading you cannot reappear just as innocent and indifferent." Alexandru Tabac, Hai la Disco... Titanic! In: Contrafort, No. 3-4, 2017 "The reconstruction of a space that only exists in memory, a disappeared world transformed into a lost Eden by the nostalgia of the characters: the former Yugoslavia." Bogdan-Alexandru Stănescu. Tărîmul dintre două nostalgii. In: Observator Cultural from 20.01.2017

Edition details

• Publisher: KLAK Verlag
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 3948156832
• ISBN 13: 9783948156831
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 574