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From Romania to France via America Born in communist Romania, Corneliu Mitrache gave up a career in aviation, swam across the Danube, and immigrated to America. Freshly graduated from Western Washington University with a degree in playwriting, Mitrache moved to New York. Godex/Godin, the controversial sequel to Waiting for Godot, premiered at the Greenwich Street Theatre and subsequently at the Attic Theatre in Los Angeles. The Village Voice, The Los Angeles Times and The Los Angeles Weekly fanned his ego with expressions like "healthy originality," "thought-provoking," and "funny as hell." An old dream made Mitrache cross another river: the Seine. Editions Denöel/Gallimard accepted A Marquise of Our Time, but ended up publishing his first novel. Recrossing the Styx was translated and hit the bookstores in 2005 as La Traversée du Styx. Even without Le Monde’s article, canceled at the last moment, the novel did catch the attention of the press, blogs and online magazines (see La Traversée du Styx).