ISBN: 973-24-0995-9
Cover: Mircea Muntenescu
Lecturer: Olga Silvia Turbatu
The novel Ultima Iarnă ( book review ) by the author Adrian Grigore was published in 2003 by the Albatros Publishing House in Bucharest and was launched at the International Book Fair, Bookarest 2003 from May 21-25, 2003, at the “Etaj 3/4” galleries and the lobby of 1st floor of the National Theater building, the 11th edition of the Bucharest International Book Fair. The presentation of the novel was made to the public by Univ. Prof.Dr. Silviu Angelescu – University of Bucharest, who also wrote the synopsis on cover four. The book was translated into English by the late Viviane PRAGER and was published in the United States in 2004 under the name The Last Winter.
Synopsis
Adrian Grigore is a name that has established in the literature of the last decade. Attracted by the novel and the availability of the epic, Adrian Grigore builds on large spaces, alternating his fields of interest, not unrelated to his own biography, to the experiences lived by him, the author, in the immediate order of life. The author assumes the condition of a witness to the events that intervene, distorting people’s lives, enrolling them on other trajectories, unpredictable and often unfortunate. If Traga şerpilor, the first novel written by Adrian Grigore, could illustrate a setback in the past, by treating a historical theme, the following two novels absorb their epic substance from the immediate present. It is the present of now and here as experienced by a scientific researcher, discreet victim of the process of economic transition and the promiscuity in which life is thrown. A classic spirit, Adrian Grigore proves to be, first, an observer of life on its moral side, without being a moralist. The need to put things in order, suggested by what happens in his new novel, Last Winter, seems to be the signal of a generation whose messenger is Adrian Grigore.
Univ. Prof. Dr. Silviu Angelescu – University of Bucharest