"Nowadays, few prose writers can boast
about themselves that they
can tell a story - fluent, fascinating, without narcissistic
digressions.
Undoubtedly, Doina Rusti is among them. " (Dan C. Mihailescu, Pro TV, April 26th, 2006)
"Erudition, a sense of narrative that is lacking in
contemporary
authors and, above all, a style that bears her distinctive mark."
(Andreea
Rasuceanu in Viaţa Românească Journal, no. 8-9, 2006)
"The novel is filled with an atrocious
realism, showing a vision as veridical as possible strictly of
contemporary
reality, but it escapes in the fantastic in a way as natural as
Marquez’s
famous Remedios was rising to the sky while she was hanging the laundry
to
dry." (Horia Garbea in Saptamana financiara Journal, March 27th, 2006).
"The fabulous, the miraculous, the supernatural blend with
the
petty history, in detail, even in the day-to-day life. A substantial
and
gripping novel, an altogether unwonted presence on the current literary
stage." (Daniel Cristea-Enache in România literară Journal, no.
23 from June 13th 2008).
“The Ghost in the mill is a fabulous novel, in which are intertwined the
history and the
magic realism.
In this mill, which is
the axis mundi,
the center, the hearth and the obsession of village, where our
character does
not know if she met with the devil or the angel, in this mill happens a
crime:
Maxu, an epileptic, is killed by mistake and everyone is obliged to
shut up.
So, all villagers become accomplices of the crime. We all have been
complicit
in that something which built us and punished us. This is the parable
of
communism... " (Dan C. Mihailescu, Omul care aduce cartea,
ProTV,
13 10 2008)
"The protagonist [The Ghost in the mill
] is indeed a scepter, hidden in a ruined mill, a topos of
horror, but
an obsessive attraction for people of Comosteni-village. In several
hundred
pages, the novel exposes the story of a family and many individual
micro-narrations.
The characters are transformed in kafkian style under the influence of
totalitarian system, so that the final section, entitled Two days,
is a
delta for all wild rivers of life with the flavor of burnt rubber.”
(Gabriel Cosoveanu: Spectral messages, Ramuri, No. 10, October
2008)
