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An exceptional talent. Răzvan Petrescu
is unmistakable.
—Mircea Nedelciu
Răzvan Petrescu is simply our best
writer of short fiction. If he would write so much as one volume of
stories per year (maybe even less often than that), the genre would
be absolutely forbidden to all other writers.
—Marius Chivu
A clear case of overshadowing:
When the mass of recent Romanian
fiction is devoured by time and thins down to a rank of ecstatic
statues, Răzvan Petrescu’s will offer the others his fragile,
generous shade—deep, ironic and subtle.
—Călin-Andrei Mihailescu
Fragile and tough, friable and
incapable of rust, uncomfortable for others, but especially for
himself, Răzvan Petrescu is a master of deception and despair, all
the while veiled in humor and exhibited like an accusing wound. His
force, and style and sharpness of observation: his instrument of
predilection—the scalpel.
—Dumitru Radu Popa
