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From Romania to France via America Novels ¥ La Traversee du Styx (Recrossing the
Styx) Plays: a Tragedy, a Comedy, a Farce &
a Highly Controversial Sequel ¥ Flush Game, or the Gospel According to
Henry Miller ¥ Beyond The Styx Nightingales DonÕt Sing |
A Marquise of Our Time (ISBN: 978-0-9789803-3-7, Forked Tongue)
Penned with the least amount of self-censorship and the
most amount of responsibility, A Marquise of Our Time is more than just a love story. Among
its flora and fauna: the plight and delight of those flocking to Paris, a
writer's soul-searching in the soulless age, a flirting guide with burlesque
romps, a who's who of the Anglophone crowd, and even an equal-opportunity
feather-plucking between the French rooster and the American eagle. ÒRefinement, wit, humor, grand artÉ not to mention the
ingenious construction, the great dialogue and the satiric vein that is rare
nowadays.Ó -CŽcile Guilbert, author, member of the reading
committee at Denšel ÒMany aspiring novelists come to Paris to write the next
great novel. Some want to be Hemingway, others want to be Joyce, still others
seek to out-Miller Henry himself. Few manage to get close. Yet I am pleased
to report that Corneliu Mitrache has done it. A Marquise of Our Time is a wild ride through the expatriate
life of contemporary Parisian days and nights of love and laughter. The best
novel I have read in a very long time.Ó -Jim Haynes, author, publisher, co-founder of
Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre ÒYou don't have to live in Paris to love A Marquise of
Our Time. It's a
touching, humorous, intelligent, absorbing work. Each page is a gem.Ó -Bill Dunn, veteran actor in Paris A stage version of the novel was read April 1st, 2007,
at CarrÕs, Paris, by Moving
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