Anton Cosma - prozator (I)
Anton Cosma - Prose Writer (I)

Summary/Abstract: Although during his whole life Anton Cosma (1940-1991) published only books of literary critics, dedicated especially to the Romanian postwar novel, his manuscripts preserve an impressive original literature belonging to various genres. Out of this lost treasure, a new volume of Anton Cosma, II - Prose is ready to be printed. Ela Cosma’s presentation of Anton Cosma - Playwright (in Libraria, VIII, 2009, p. 227-234) and the publication of Anton Cosma, I - Teatru (Editura Argonaut, ClujNapoca, 2010, 516 p.), both disclosing an unexpected and gifted dramatist, are followed now by the revelation of the unknown writer hidden beyond the glasses of the much better known literary critic. The present article features Anton Cosma’s fantastic fiction. United under the title Povestiri din lumi paralele (Recitals from Parallel Worlds), 8 stories gliding from classical fantastic to SF are depicted here: Masa cu nouă popi (The Table with Nine Popes), Mă cheamă, de exemplu, Sebastian (My Name Is, for Instance, Sebastian), Papagalul negru (The Black Parrot), Ciudata aventură a profesorului (The Strange Adventure of the Professor), Bomboane şi sirop (Lollipops and Syrup), Poveste în lumi simultane (Story in Simultaneous Worlds), Tovarăşul din Andromeda (The Comrade from Andromeda) and Pygmalion. Anton Cosma’s stories offer a breakthrough to fantastic, which is nothing else, as the writer puts it, than „another face of the commonplace. In other words, trivial, extraordinary, fantastic, festive, insignificant deliver just images, hypostases or isotopes of reality.”

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