About the Book
The satirical novel Slightly Fissured Statues by Romanian writerGeorge Rizescu is an amazing book that unveils the inner political life of the Parliament in Bucharest an reveals truths that are difficult to imagine about party activities, manipulations and irresponsible acts.
This is what literary critic Aureliu Goci tells us about this captivating book:
Narrative Performance and Excellence of Fun
Mr. George Rizescu's comic work is a conscious way of comic sources reevaluation, in modern and postmodern forms.
His latest two books, "Short Treatise on Bollocksology" and "Slightly Fissured Statues," represent his complete and complex textual contribution to deciphering and exploring the humorous formulas produced by an increasingly ridiculous and comic society, as--it seems--it loses its sense of humor at the level of consciousness. This last sense is based on degradation of the other senses in the endowment of the human being.
The humor of exaggerated communication that George Rizescu's prose introduces is one of the most appropriate and synchronous scriptural expressions in the spirit of the contemporary civilization.
Surely, earlier, we were aware of the Hamletian "world rocking" at the beginning of the millennium, world still under the terror of a glorious, apocalyptic end that was supposed to crown festively the past millennium and the high-profile year 2000, of course long-awaited for 2000 years (according to some, awaited even for a longer time).
The sober, methodical, academic attitude of the author--who became an important comic writer of our time--could only lead to a representative creation of contemporary times and the discovery of a first-class and high significance writer at a time when the image is still trying to detract the text... and, behold, it can't!
Mr. George Rizescu, profound comic contemporary author, created a fully personalized expressive territoriality, supported by a consistent work in the true sense of the word.
Through his writing, he can't be snatched from the center of the contemporary comic universe because he remains tucked into the place by the heavy anchors represented by his novels, starting with the "Salvache1..." cycle and continuing with the "Treatise on Bollocksology" and "Slightly Fissured Statues."
The author, of course, a chronicler of his time, represents for us, in this last book a fabulous "history" of events and characters that mark a period in a determined space.
"History" is a nineteenth century concept that on the one hand records and defines documentarily, chronologically and coherently time and space, and--on the other hand, it's an imaginary construction, an invented but credible story, a fictional subtext with diffuse didactic motivations and moral ends. "History" is recorded and explained in order to be a model, either positive or negative, so as not to repeat itself.
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We can say that Mr. George Rizescu performs, in the unitary and coherent series of his novels, a post-revolutionary epic of the new Romanian capitalism.
Aureliu Goci
About the Author: The writer George Rizescu was born on 24 January 1950 in Rociu, Argeş. He has studed law. He was a Member of the Romanian Parliament. He published several novels, collections of short stories, as well as juridical studies.
GEORGE RIZESCU HAS PUBLISHED THE FOLLOWING BOOKS:
- LA POARTA CELOR CARE DORM, 1990;
- URLĂTOAREA OFICIALĂ, volum de proze scurte umoristice, 1993;
- ŞARLATANII, roman satiric, 1993;
- ŞARLATANII sau IGOR SALVACHE-ROMANU ŞI REVOLUŢIA, roman satiric, 1995;
- GUVERNAREA LUI SALVACHE, 1998, roman satiric;
- ARBITRAJUL PRIVAT, cu o prefaţă de Prof. univ. dr. VICTOR DUCULESCU, 1998;
- NEVOIA DE ORTODOXIE, 2000;
- DIPLOMAŢIA PARLAMENTARĂ, 2000 (Teza de doctorat în Ştiinţa Dreptului Internaţional Public);
- RELAŢII ŞI ORGANIZAŢII INTERNAŢIONALE, 2001;
- DREPT CIVIL - partea generală şi persoanele, 2001;
- PARLAMENTARII LUI SALVACHE, roman satiric, 2003;
- ELEMENTE DE DREPT INTERNAŢIONAL CONTEMPORAN, 2003;
- PREOTUL, PRIETENUL SUFLETULUI MEU, 2005;
- SAGA LUI IGOR SALVACHE, 2006 (cu o prefaţă de DAN ZAMFIRESCU), roman, prima parte din trilogia Saga lui Igor Salvache);
- ELEMENTE DE DREPT INTERNAŢIONAL CONTEMPORAN, ediţie revăzută şi adăugită, 2007;
- PROZE SCURTE ŞI ALTE... VORBE, volum de proze scurte şi alte vorbe, 2008;
- SOLDAŢII MEI, ŢĂRANII, 2008;
- PARLAMENTARII LUI SALVACHE, ediţie adăugită şi îmbunătăţită, roman, partea a doua din trilogia Saga lui Igor Salvache) 2008;
- MAREA SPOVEDANIE, roman, ultima parte din trilogia Saga lui Igor Salvache, 2008;
- RECURS LA RUGĂCIUNE, 2008;
- PROZE SCURTE DE SEZON, 2009;
- MIC TRATAT DE PROSTOLOGIE cu ANEXE, 2011;
- CĂTUŞELE DE AUR, 2013;
- MIC TRATAT DE PROSTOLOGIE, ediţia a II-a, mult adăugită şi foarte, foarte mult îmbunătăţită, 2015;
- STATUI UŞOR FISURATE, roman, 2016; 2017
- PORTETE ŞI STATUI CU OAMENI ŞI ANIMALE, proză scurtă, 2016
- SLIGHTLY FISSURED STATUES, a novel, 2018
- ŞCOALA DE VARĂ, roman, 2018
