THE INNER UNREST IN RADU ȚUCULESCU’S PIVNIȚA
THE INNER UNREST IN RADU ȚUCULESCU’S PIVNIȚA

Summary/Abstract: First revealed in 1995, multiple awarded in Romania and abroad, Radu Țuculescu’s short-stories volume was translated in 2008: Der Mikrowellenherd and now it gains a new title and a new attention from the critics and also the readers. Republished in 2014, the volume was renamed because its initial name was associated with technical purposes and classified in consequence. Pivnița, the basement of all horrible destinies of the characters gathers ten short-stories full of incredible happenings, encouraging the reader to emphasize his own imagination. None of the stories has an obvious final none of them reveals anything, that’s why the author creates a fascinating land, full of mysteries, full of horrible actions, with great characters. Mediocrity is revealed through the characters and their actions, but used by the novelist as a tool to impress, mediocrity becomes more that it seems to be. Communism, fear, anxiety, jealousy or ugliness are detailed through the pages. Even if it seems to be a short-stories volume, it’s obvious in the end the fact that if you are imaginative enough you can find a tiny spider-web like similarity between the stories that will transform the volume into a sequential novel.

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