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    Epic Stories
    Epic Stories
    Epic Stories
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    Epic Stories

    By Mirela Roznoveanu

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    What is the human being duty and what is the source of my restlessness, of my metaphysical impatience? Could it be that exile has made me a woman of no fixed abode? These questions are coming from a woman with hybrid origins who lived in a communist dictatorship country; fought injustice and censorship and was punished by the secret police; was involved in Romania’s 1989 Revolution; witnessed the post-communist nomenclature and secret police stealing back the country; wrote the history of the world fiction, a comparative study in Romanian; at the age of 44 she left both her home and her language behind and settled into the US and into English as she saw herself as an exile not just from her country but from her mother tongue too; founded GlobaLex, an iconic research tool, at the NYU School of Law Hauser Global Program; and has collected multiple honors in Romania and in the US, including Romania’s Officer of the National Order for Faithful Service. She uses her European literary references as an enhancement for her range of American tonalities. The daughter of Hrisula Limona, a woman belonging to an ancient Armân/Vlach clan from the Pindus Mountains, and Iancu Roznowski, of Polish descent, whose ancestors once lived at the Imperial Court of Habsburgs in Vienna, Mirela Roznoveanu was born on April 10, 1947 in the Kingdom of Romania. A few months later (December 1947) the Communists forced Romania’s King to abdicate and the country surrendered to the Communist USSR. Mirela lives in many languages at once and multiple expressions of literary forms. She is a cosmopolitan writer. Her slogan is “I am curious therefore I am”. For Mirela forgetting is an impossible task and she turns this inability into memorable stories. Her knowledge of philosophy, fiction writing, literary criticism and theory is endlessly rich. Mirela is not only a literary critic, novelist, and a poet but also a journalist and an intellectual with an incisive intelligence and a great sense of social justice.
    Epic Stories gathers for the first time under the same covers all Mirela Roznoveanu’s literary voices from poetry and literary criticism to journalism, fiction, and travel writing. The reader becomes a witness and a participant into the making of a new life in exile and of the transformation of a foreign language into one that becomes part of the writer’s native language.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateJun 21, 2020
    ISBN9781984579720
    Epic Stories
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    Mirela Roznoveanu

    Mirela Roznoveanu is a native of Romania who immigrated to the United States. Her literary works in Romanian include novels, critical essays (among them the vast Civilization of the Novel: A History of Fiction Writing from Ramayana to Don Quixote), and poetry. She has published in English two books of poems, Born Again – in Exile, and Elegies from New York City; a collection of novellas, The Life Manager and Other Stories; and literary criticism. Mirela Roznoveanu has been always a writer pursuing her way to perfection and artistic development. These trends could be seen from her earlier works, such as her manifesto of her Romanian debut volume in Romania, “Lecturi Moderne” (Modern Readings, 1978). Mirela is among those writers and critics who have sought over recent years to turn the energy of their native cultures into a complex work with signifi cant moral and aesthetic connotations. Alexandra Conte is a musician, teacher and illustrator. She graduated the Academy of Music from Bucharest, Romania, and worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1976 being associated with Julliard School of Music. She wrote several illustrated musical books for children. This book is a proof of the deep friendship and cooperation between Mirela and Alexandra, which we hope will continue! Enjoy!

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