THE BANAT, HISTORY AND FABULOUS

Abstract

Well-known critic Dorin Murariu, who has been a keen reviewer of the Banat literature, books where a future prose writer could be easily inferred, let the prose writer reveal himself by publishing The Iron Moon,a volume which evokes the familiar spiritualterritory as a realm where history and the fabulous are equally present. The twelve short stories could be the chapters of a Proustian novel about the lost time, the regained time, the reconstructed time, a Bildungsroman in a Macondo shaken by unforgivinghistory