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Drumul egal al fiecărei zile / The Identical Journey of Every Day
Novel, Fiction Ldt collection, Polirom, 2008 (5th revised edition), 360 pages, 130×200 mm
Copyright: Gabriela Adameşteanu
Translation rights sold to: Gallimard (France), Balkani (Bulgaria)
Book presentation
The Identical Journey of Every Day (1975) brought the author the Debut Award of the Writers’ Union in Romania and the Romanian Academy Award.
„The Identical Journey of Every Day is a strong, lively and timeless novel, whose only age is that of universal adolescence. The book is about a woman’s sentimental education, subtly echoing Flaubert, and, as such, it is unique in the Romanian literature. The story evolves in two environments: a provincial city and a university campus, at the beginning of the 1960s. Letiţia Branea, a teenager, comes from a marginalised family. Her parents are separated, her father being in political prison, and the young girl lives with her mother and her mother’s brother, uncle Ion, a highschool teacher whose life is a series of renunciations, as in Checkov. The young girl’s obsession is to be different. Her coming of age is accelerated by her uncle’s unexpected death.” (Sanda Cordoş)
“In The Identical Journey of Every Day, Gabriela Adameşteanu achieves an ironic prose of realist observation, of the kind illustrated by the English novel of the 1960s (Room at the Top, This Sporting Life), in which we discover the solitary hero of a humble or humiliated family, determined to break the mould and ultimately to obtain social retribution. The author’s artistic approach differs from that of the British ‘angry young men’ (John Braine, David Storey) inasmuch as it shuns engagement and pathos, maintaining a cunning balance, a moderately selfish, patient, and partially resigned expectation. The best pages result when the author pitilessly examines the wretchedness of youth, the gregarious embarrassment of a chaotic age.” (Norman Manea)
