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Editura Universitara Sentence to life

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Volume awarded with the FIRST PRIZE within the Manuscript Contest FULFILL A DREAM - NOVEL section

ISBN: 978-606-28-1301-7

DOI: 10.5682/9786062813017

Publisher year: 2021

Edition: I

Pages: 262

Publisher: Editura Universitara

Author: Marius Cărbunescu

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"I was happy for the moment without realizing that I had left Simpang Renggam behind to dive into another prison, much bigger and more abject, where we all receive, from the first moment of our birth, a blank certificate to be sentenced to death. The sentence is implemented sooner or later, as decided by the supreme judge. What remains for us mortals is a cruel and distressing expectation. I was only about ten meters from the prison gate. The effluvia of freedom had already dissipated and worries had begun. I sat on a curb, looking at the facade of the building from which I had just come out with a blank stare. "Don't look back!", I heard in my mind the warm and still rebuking voice of the mandarin. It was as if he and his mother had been understood over time and over half the globe. Suddenly I lit up my face and knew what to do with the surrogate I had been assigned. Where can I go to satisfy all my desires? ”
MARIUS CARBUNESCU, born on March 19, 1974, comes from the world of the written press. A graduate in journalism, he worked in the 1990s for the daily "Romania Libera". Then, things went awry in his life, trying various trades with no connection to writing. Even now you can meet him on the streets of Bucharest, behind the wheel of a car registered UBER, performing passenger transport services. The attraction to literature came in recent years, starting from a nostalgic blog, created under the motto "Fragments of life reconditioned".
The literary debut came in 2017 with the volume of short prose "The Fugitive", published by Antim Ivireanul Publishing House. "The Fugitive" represented for the author more than a debut validated by readers. It was also a test book from which his future novels developed. The first embryo to break the chrysalis and catch wings the size of a stately novel was called "Press House", published in 2018. It was followed by "Mistress of the system" (2019) and "B-MAX - The Diary of a Uberist" (2020) .

I do not intend in this Foreword to offer reading keys to readers. Some will probably consider that the novel is inspired by a real case, others, on the contrary, that it is the fruit of some inventions and that the documents on which the former are based have been prefabricated. As the reader is always right, I will confirm this right to some and to others. So, I will say or not that, starting from a newspaper article, I set out to follow in the footsteps of the event and recreate a world. In fact, such a world would not be plausible because, in the real world, life often gives the class of fiction.
I assure you that the novel has no difficulty in being read as a linear narrative, respectively as the confession of an addict. But it can be read in another way. The keys are found right inside, in the form of small digressions or symbols. To capture the interest of those who open this volume in disbelief, I would just like to say: if we replace the rigors of life with a prison where we all receive from the first moment of our birth a blank certificate of death row inmates, and us, those who live with victims and executioners at the same time for our dreams and feelings, some brutally repressed, if we tend to become frequentable for our fellow men, responsible for air pollution, for the flora and fauna that surround us; for the whole Earth, whose passengers we are, we cross the ages with the permission of the one who tolerates us on his face, the perspective changes radically. So there is a parable of life that I leave you to discover in the following lines. And, as sometimes happens to me, following the path of the main character, torn by contradictions, fickle and inconsistent, in a continuous struggle with himself, I end this brief note, on a piece of paper and on a desk corner, by I don't care about the word from the beginning. With your will, I just revealed one of the keys to reading. There are others.

Marius Carbunescu

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