THE PROSE OF MATEI VIȘNIEC
THE PROSE OF MATEI VIȘNIEC

Summary/Abstract: Matei Vișniec’s novels always orbit around nuclei that hint at the breaking of a spiritual code. From a simple travesty, to the dropped masks, to the violence of the social dialogue, to the media aggression; in general, anything that puts on disharmonic spectacles of humanity. However you slice it, his books clearly send the message of a responsible entity exasperated with the surrounding enactments of the world and, above all, with the triumph of oblivion. You can’t be the silent witness to the spiritual evaporation of the contemporary world. And, if you do get involved, then you have every shot at being marginalized. His prose puts forth dystopias, apocalypses small and big, absurdist scenarios, speculations rooted in the present, all centered around man becoming toxic to man. In other words, the diseased humanity of Vișniec passes before the reader through an always memorable spectacle.

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