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He debuted as a journalist with articles published by the magazine Tribuna during 1960.
Augustin's Buzura first published work was the 1963 collection of short stories, Capul Bunei Speranţe ("Cape of Good Hope"). This relationship, which in the end leads to erotic consummation, conjoins the characters’ personal stories, endow¬ing them with joint meaning and thereby expositing two different types of loneliness, which together constitute the major theme of the book.
He continued to publish regularly after that date, receiving critical acclaim and being awarded the Romanian Writers' Union prize three times, for the successive works Absenţii ("The Absentees"), Feţele tăcerii ("The Faces of Silence") and Vocile nopţii ("The Voices in the Night").
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Augustin Buzura
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("Nimeni, până la Augustin Buzura, şi nici după el, nu a s...)
"Nimeni, până la Augustin Buzura, şi nici după el, nu a sondat atât de adânc şi cu atâta curaj estetic abisurile şi amploarea ravagiilor dedublării şi ambivalenţei fiinţei într-o lume ea însăşi purtând pecetea unei psihopatii generalizate.
Dar nici nu elimină semnele şi indiciile care fac din patologia ambiguităţii şi a ambivalenţei autentica temă a romanului său." Mircea Iorgulescu "Insolitul acestui roman este dat de nivelul paroxistic la care este împinsă arta prin presiunea nemaiîntâlnită a realului.
Augustin Buzura
Augustin Buzura ([awɡusˈtin buˈzura]; September 22, 1938, Berința-Copalnic-Mănăștur – July 10, 2017, Bucharest) was a Romanian novelist and short story writer, also known as a journalist, essayist and literary critic.
Astăzi este greu de închipuit la ce riscuri etice, estetice, dar şi existenţiale se expunea un scriitor ce literaturiza imediatul ajuns la un nivel inimaginabil de absurd." Nicoleta Sălcudeanu
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Novel, �Fiction Ltd.� series, Polirom Publishing House, 2009, 408 pages
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Although simple at first sight, the subject matter of the novel revolves around the dialogues between its two protagonists : Dr Cassian Robert, who has abandoned his old folks’ home in order to retreat to an alpine cabin near a disused meteorological observation post, and Mara, his neighbour, who is living in the old weather station.
This theme is that of waiting – waiting for the end, from the old man’s viewpoint, and waiting for a moment that might initiate a different kind of existence, from that of the young Mara.
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A member of the Romanian Academy, he has been the president of the Romanian Cultural Foundation since 1990 and president of the Romanian Cultural Institute between 2003 and 2004.Born in Berinţa village, Copalnic-Mănăștur commune (Maramureş County), Buzura graduated from Gheorghe Şincai National College in Baia Mare and attended the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy in Cluj (1958–1964), specializing in psychiatry.
Prudent şi subtil, cu acea prudenţă a romancierului veritabil, pentru care personajele nu sunt marionete mânuite mai mult sau mai puţin abil, ci hieroglife ale misterelor existenţei, Augustin Buzura nu pune nici un diagnostic. These dialogues form wide ranging stories, drawn from the recollections of Cassian and Mara, and are shot through with an epic thread that lends the book savour and suspense.
Doctor Cassian Robert, persistently visited by Mara, who is the daughter of Theodora, a woman he loved in his youth, discovers in this young woman a confidante, in spite of his initial reserve.
On the one hand, Mara acts as a trigger for the doctor’s reminiscences. Proba acestui curaj este, în primul rând, construirea întregului roman pe suportul unui personaj atât de ambiguu cum este Ioana Olaru. On the other hand, the young woman, who, after the death of her father, has been leading a lonely life in a disused weather station, has plenty of stories of her own to stir the doctor’s interest.
Their “game” of interwoven stories becomes erotically charged, but it is precisely the older protagonist who refuses to be caught, sometimes having to resort to inventing puerile or even embarrassing excuses in order to rebuff the young woman’s advances.