It is the vivid blue that makes this cemetery look so lively. Some say it’s the radiant blue of heaven where souls of the deceased depart after death, while others even talk about the vivid blue known today as “Sapanta blue” as reflecting images of devotion, truth and wisdom. Well, when the craftsman himself was asked about what inspired it, he replied plainly: “the sky”.
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16 December 2009, by Diana Varbanescu
"...the moment a Russian realized you were Romanian, he'd try by all means to frustrate you: Russian doctors would prescribe you the wrong treatment, on purpose, while shop girls would deliberately sell you rotten salami..."
22 October 2009, by Diana Varbanescu
"... the style is very much cinematographic, that of a "director manqué", quite pictorial, using strong visualisations, colourful, a bit like a display of watercolours in an exhibition, following some narrative sense. The writing is also devoid of fake romanticism. Instead it is candid, humorous at times and intuitive. But the key to this novel is really my attempt to capture the ephemeral and render it everlasting"
22 October 2009, by Felix Nicolau
"Why should one dare to build a trilogy at the treshold between the second and the third millenia? When people read less and less and the microtext marches in triumph? Could be a maniacal, an overwhelming impulse or a try to systematise the themes.."