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The writer-narrator of The Bulgarian Truck has hit upon a new technique for writing a novel, which he calls “a building site beneath the open sky,” but he cannot persuade his more widely read wife, Marianne, a character from an earlier novel, that it is any good. Meanwhile, the narrator’s extramarital affair with Milena, a young Slovak novelist who writes in French, turns sour. Interspersed among the narrator’s accounts of his novel’s growing pains are stories of the characters he has invented—Tsvetan, a Bulgarian truck driver, and Beatrice, an impenetrable French erotic dancer—unfolding according to their own logic while hurtling toward a fatal conclusion.



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Rarely has a postmodernist work been handled so engagingly as by this Romanian master

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This slim, deeply surreal novel by the exiled Romanian writer Tsepeneag is quite deft in its execution....An imaginative work of oneiric fiction by a master practitioner..

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The Bulgarian Truck

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    A Paperback / softback by Dumitru Tspeneag, Alistair Ian Blyth

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      Publisher Dalkey Archive Press
      Published 31 March 2016
      ISBN-13 9781564786982
      978-1564786982
      ISBN-10 1564786986

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The writer-narrator of The Bulgarian Truck has hit upon a new technique for writing a novel, which he calls “a building site beneath the open sky,” but he cannot persuade his more widely read wife, Marianne, a character from an earlier novel, that it is any good. Meanwhile, the narrator’s extramarital affair with Milena, a young Slovak novelist who writes in French, turns sour. Interspersed among the narrator’s accounts of his novel’s growing pains are stories of the characters he has invented—Tsvetan, a Bulgarian truck driver, and Beatrice, an impenetrable French erotic dancer—unfolding according to their own logic while hurtling toward a fatal conclusion.



      Trade Review

      Rarely has a postmodernist work been handled so engagingly as by this Romanian master

      * Irish Times *

      This slim, deeply surreal novel by the exiled Romanian writer Tsepeneag is quite deft in its execution....An imaginative work of oneiric fiction by a master practitioner..

      * Kirkus Reviews *

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