Un scriitor român considerat “clasic european” la New York
Lucian Merişca
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“SFWA European Hall of Fame: Sixteen Contemporary Science Fiction Classics from the Continent” – antologia editata la cunoscuta casa editoriala Tor Books din New York de catre James Morrow si Kathryn Morrow, este considerata, de “Publishers Weekly”, ca fiind impecabil tradusa. In aceeasi recenzie, este mentionata nuvela romanului Lucian Merişca, "Some Earthlings' Adventures on Outrerria", prezentata ca o dureroasa satira politica. Comentariul se incheie cu afirmatia: aceste speculatii disciplinate, create de scriitori europeni si de chinuitii lor traducatori, sunt receptate nu numai cu mintea, ci si prin filiera emotionala. Aceleasi afirmatii sunt reluate si pe Amazon.com, alaturi de datele tehnice (Hardcover) si coperta cartii. Lansarea oficiala pe 12 iunie 2007. Ultima recenzie “ex-ante” a aparut in LOCUS: THE MAGAZINE OF THE SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY FIELD Issue 556, Vol. 58, No. 5 May 2007, Oakland, California. Gary K. Wolfe scrie: Sub egida Science Fiction Writers of America, James si Kathryn Morrow au scos o antologie care s-ar putea dovedi a avea cea mai mare influenta.Cea mai comica poveste din carte, opera unei impresionante munci de traducere, este "Some Earthlings' Adventures on Outrerria", scrisa de romanul Lucian Merisca – in acelasi timp un comentariu la adresa regimului Ceausescu si o fabula absurda despre o insurgenta inspirata de pamanteni pe o planeta a represiunii. Publishers Weekly: Fiction Reviews: Week of 3/12/2007 SFWA
European Hall of Fame: Sixteen Contemporary Science Fiction Classics from
the Continent Wondrous worlds await U.S. SF fans in this sensitively chosen, impeccably translated anthology of Continental European science fiction stories, ranging from 1987 to 2005. Offering "emotional satisfaction and cerebral excitement," as James Morrow puts it in his introduction, highlights include … Romanian Lucian Merisca's "Some Earthlings' Adventures on Outrerria," an excruciating political satire… These "disciplined speculations" by European writers and their painstaking translators not only excite the mind, they move the heart. (June) http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6422752.html Product Details · Hardcover: 336 pages · Publisher: Tor Books (June 12, 2007) · Language: English · ISBN-10: 076531536X · ISBN-13: 978-0765315366 · Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches · Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds Amazon.com Sales Rank: #224,746 in Books http://www.amazon.com/SFWA-European-Hall-Fame-Contemporary/dp/076531536X LOCUS: THE MAGAZINE OF THE SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY FIELD Issue 556, Vol. 58, No. 5 May 2007 Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe The SFWA European Hall of Fame: Sixteen Contemporary Science Fiction Classics from the Continent, edited by James Morrow and Kathryn Morrow (Tor 978-0-765-31536-6, $26.95, 336pp, hc) June 2007 …Now, with the imprimatur of the Science Fiction Writers of America, comes James and Kathryn Morrow’s The SFWA European Hall of Fame, which might well prove to be the most influential of all these anthologies. …The most hilarious story in the book, and one of the most impressive feats of translation (the Morrows have paid close attention to the quality of translation throughout) is the Romanian Lucian Merisca’s “Some Earthlings’ Adventures on Outrerria”, at once a commentary on the Ceausecu regime and an absurdist fable of an Earth-backed insurgency on a repressive planet (whose inhabitants look like burned-out lightbulbs and refuse to ever change their socks). The Terrans boast of the advances they’ve brought to the planet, such as bicycles and railway stations (though “for security reasons” they didn’t build any actual railways), but when their plot against the Emperor is exposed, they end up trapped in a classic pulp cliché—a room with walls closing in. …But that may be part of what makes some of these stories seem both familiar and different: below a certain age, culture is more global than it’s ever been, and concerns more universal. SF in Europe may draw on a greater weight of history, may move fluidly among traditions of political satire, surrealism, magic realism, and genre SF, and may seem at once alien and familiar, but in the end it orchestrates the same anxieties. --Gary K. Wolfe |