Petru Popescu’s English-Language Work
Petru Popescu’s English-Language Work
Author(s): Jarmila HorákováSubject(s): Romanian Literature, History of the Holocaust, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: contemporary Romanian literature; exile literature; Romanian literary exile; creative non- fiction; holocaust literature; adolescents’ literature;
Summary/Abstract: The writer Petru Popescu (born 1944) entered Romanian literature in the late 1960s and almost imme- diately gained the interest of critics and readers. His novels were innovative not only in terms of bold themes but also of narrative strategies. This article focuses on Petru Popescu’s work written in exile in English, i.e., from the late 1970s until 2009. His texts vary significantly, as Popescu tried his hand at several literary genres, from popular novels (Before and after Edith, In Hot Blood), travelogues (Amazon Beaming), adventure novels (Almost Adam), and adolescents’ literature (Footprints in Time) to his memoir (The Return) and the more stylized memoir about his parents-in-law (The Oasis: A mem- oir of Love and Survival in a Concentration Camp).
Journal: Romanica Cracoviensia
- Issue Year: 2023
- Issue No: Sp. Iss. 2
- Page Range: 207-214
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English