Bucharest, eighties, last decade of the dictatorship of CeauÅŸescu.
Four women are writing partners in a literary magazine and one of them is subjected to violent political persecution.
How will the others react?
The Albertina dossier, Tiflos 2016, is a reflection on human behavior in a limit situation, on the truth and tension between wanting to know and not wanting to know when this truth is unbearable.
It is also a love story that lasts for twenty years.
The scenarios of the novel are Bucharest, Paris, Granada, New York and Orlando.
With a certain air of a detective novel, the book covers an obscure period of history, describes the fascination with power and the consequences that the hard moments bring to the next generation.
Ioana Gruia, Romanian writer, author of the novel, presented this work in Cartagena on Thursday, within the cycle Read, Think and Imagine, in the Adult Library of the Ramón Alonso Luzzy Cultural Center.
She was accompanied by Vicente Cervera Salinas (Professor of Spanish Literature, Theory of Comparative Literature Literature of the University of Murcia and poet).
IOANA GRUIA
Ioana Gruia (1978, Bucharest).
Writer, researcher and professor of comparative literature at the University of Granada.
He has published the following books: Autumn without body, finalist of the Federico García Lorca prize of the University of Granada (2002), Nighthawks, winner of the same prize in the modality of story (2007), Eliot and time writing in Spanish poetry (Novel, Silver Spur, 2013), Carrusel (Visor, 2009), The sun in the fruit (Renaissance, 2011), Andalusian award Young poet (translated into French and Romanian) Emmanuel Alarcos, The Scar in Contemporary European Literature (Renaissance, 2015), The Work of Norman Manea: Criticism and Interpretation (EUG, University of Granada, 2016) and The Albertina Record, Tiflos (Castalia / Edhasa, 2016).
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena