Ebook {Epub PDF} Miruna a Tale by Bogdan Suceavă

For Bogdan Suceavă, there is only one tale, and to attempt to tell another is only to get lost in its ever-expanding orbit. Bogdan Suceavă was born in Curtea de Argeș, Romania, in He attended university in Bucharest and then came to the United States in to pursue graduate studies, ultimately receiving his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Michigan State University. Blending the autobiographical and historical with the marvelous, Miruna, a Tale is a novel whose core is the exploration of the imaginary themes and motives that informed traditional society in the mountainous regions of Romania, a world that was radically transformed into 5/5(5). ISBN Anyone raised even in the vestigial remnants of an oral culture will respond at some level to the tales in this eloquently told and moving novel, for they show the members of the Bercea family, as other tales tell other families, “who we are.”. They are—the narrator, Trajan, and his sister Miruna—the great-grandchildren of Constantine Bercea, who fought in the Romanian war of .

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Bogdan Suceavă: Miruna, o poveste (Miruna, A Tale) Bogdan Suceavă spent much of his childhood with his grandparents in a remote area of Romania. It is this that is the basis of this novel. The narrator, Trajan, and his sister, Miruna, are living with their grandparents in a village called Evil Vale. The area is so remote that collectivisation has not been possible there. For Bogdan Suceavă, there is only one tale, and to attempt to tell another is only to get lost in its ever-expanding orbit. Bogdan Suceavă was born in Curtea de Argeș, Romania, in He attended university in Bucharest and then came to the United States in to pursue graduate studies, ultimately receiving his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Michigan State University. ISBN Anyone raised even in the vestigial remnants of an oral culture will respond at some level to the tales in this eloquently told and moving novel, for they show the members of the Bercea family, as other tales tell other families, “who we are.”. They are—the narrator, Trajan, and his sister Miruna—the great-grandchildren of Constantine Bercea, who fought in the Romanian war of independence in the late nineteenth century and earned, through his service, the first.