Panait Istrati
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In Panait Istrati's 1929 novella, now translated into English, fourteen-year-old Adrien Zograffi begins an apprenticeship in a toolmaking workshop on the docks of the Danube River port in Brăila, Romania. Progress, in the form of floating grain elevators, threatens to destroy the livelihoods of a large community of dockworkers.Genre: novella
2) The Haiduks
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Panait Istrati's _The Haiduks_ is a tale of cruelty and injustice (and of those who would combat these scourges) set in a Romania bled white by the ferocity of an occupying power and the greed of its native aristocracy."The marvelous storytelling talent," notes José Carlos Mariátegui, "that Panait Istrati revealed as of his earliest books is confirmed in _The Haiduks_. The figures of the haiduks, especially those of Floarea Codrilor, Élie the Sage,...
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"The Sponge Diver" features the young Romanian vagabond Adrien Zograffi, this time in Greece, as he listens to the harrowing tale of a fellow Romanian drifter's season of forced labor aboard a small ship plying the Eastern Mediterranean in search of rich sponge beds.Panait Istrati (1884-1935) was once among the most popular writers in Europe.
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Romanian
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Fiction. Translated from the Romanian by Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno. KYRA KYRALINA, upon publication early in the nineteen twenties, immediately established its author as a leading writer in the Modernist pantheon. The first volume in a series of volumes indebted to Oriental modes of storytelling, such as, found in The Thousand and One Nights, KYRA KYRALINA is a book of great, charm and profound, insight into the human condition.
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Español
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La obra de Panait Istrati ha sufrido la censura política, las diatribas de la doctrina comunista de la que el autor renegó, la homofobia institucional y hasta mala suerte. El novelista, hijo de un contrabandista griego y una lavandera rumana, y de ese lugar del mundo donde Oriente y Occidente se tocan y conviven, tenía vocación de trotamundos, amigo de los desposeídos, enemigo de la injusticia: Roger Bartra dijo que era "el poeta de los vagabundos...
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_The Thüringer House_ is the first of a cycle of novels, "Life of Adrien Zograffi," written by the Romanian Panait Istrati in the early 1930's, shortly after his return, bitterly disillusioned, from a long stay in the Soviet Union. Adrien, servant in a bourgeois household headed by rich grain exporters, must reconcile his socialist ideals--put to the test during a strike in the grain-exporting port of Braila, on the Danube--and his growing attraction...
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The Romanian writer Panait Istrati (1884-1935) was once among the most popular writers in Europe. He and his work fell out of favor after he published an early denunciation (written with Victor Serge and Boris Souvarine) of the Soviet regime._Mediterranean (Sunrise)_, completed in March 1934, is one of Istrati's final novels. It follows the young vagabond Adrien Zograffi as he sails away for the first time from his native Romania. Aboard his steamer,...