“The product
of a powerful original prose writer, a rara
avis in post communist Romanian literature, The Ghost
in the Mill is not only a first-rate literary event of
the current year, but also one of the most convincingly poignant works
of
fiction addressing the topic of local communism to be published during
the last
decade. (Paul Cernat -
Revista 22, Bucureştiul cultural, 2.12.2008)
« Doina Ruşti est une
prosatrice puissante
et originale, rara avis dans la
littérature roumaine post-décembriste » (Paul Cernat, Bucureştiul
cultural, 2008, n° 17-80).
« Avec ce
troisième
roman, aussi ambitieux que réussi, Doina Ruşti
entre dans l’élite de notre prose encore jeune » (Daniel
Cristea-Enache, Timouri noi, Editura Cartea Românească,
2009, p. 177).
« Un livre [La Fantome du moulin] très bien articulé sur le plan narratif, avec de solutions
incitantes pour le lecteur moderne, et une science du récit et du
dosage
informatif en prise avec toutes les catégories de lecteurs »
(Constantin
Dram, Convorbirii literare, octobre
2008, n° 10).
« Doina Ruşti
écrit un
roman puissant [La Fantome du moulin], dans lequel la vigueur épique,
l’acuité de l’observation réaliste, la minutiosité des descriptions et
les
discrètes effluves lyriques soutiennent une histoire captivante »
(Gabriela
Georghişor, Dilemateca, 2008, n° 31).
« Mais ce
livre [La
Fantome du moulin] est avant tout généreux quant à la captation de
l’émotion sous sa forme naturelle, sans aucune stridence stylistique ni
ces
grincements solipsistes dont font assez preuve ses contemporains »
(Gabriel
Coşoveanu, Ramuri, 2008, n° 10).
« De manière
très
habile, les événements de la grande histoire se
reflètent dans la petite, dans la chronique de famille que Doina Ruşti
fait
avec son talent habituel, avec une grande capacité d’observation des
détails
d’atmosphère et de langage » (Horia Gârbea, Săptămâna
financiară, 3 octobre 2008).
« Doina Ruşti
compte
parmi les rares écrivains que connaît la
littérature roumaine post-décembriste, qui soient réellement capables
de
raconter une histoire » (Bogdan Romaniuc, Suplimentul
de cultură, 2008, n° 199).
« Par-delà
l’originalité
du thème, ce roman [Le Fantome du moulin] ne saurait tenir
sans le
talent, sans l’intelligence et la verve de l’auteure, qui
transparaissent
pleinement » (Horia Gârbea, Ziua, 22
janvier 2005).
« L’observation
lucide
et profonde de l’être humain, mélange de froide
dureté, de malice et de vibration empathique, est l’une des qualités
majeures
de l’auteure, également visible dans les niveaux de langue : le récit
blanc,
aux touches bouleversantes, trouve un juste
milieu avec la tonalité du langage paysan » (Paul Cernat, Bucureştiul cultural, 2008, n° 17-80).
« Peu de
prosateurs
peuvent aujourd’hui se vanter de savoir raconter
une histoire – fluide, charmante, sans digressions narcissiques.
Doina Ruşti
est de ceux-là, sans l’ombre d’un doute. » (Dan C. Mihăilescu, Pro
TV,
26 avril 2006)
« Ce
roman [Zogru] est chargé d’un
réalisme atroce, exposant une vision aussi avérée que possible de la
réalité
strictement contemporaine, mais il s’évade dans le fantastique avec
tout autant
de naturel que la célèbre Remedios de Marquez, par exemple, lorsque,
étendant
des tapis à sécher, elle s’élève vers le ciel. » (Horia Gârbea, Săptămâna
financiară, 27 mars 2006)
« De
l’érudition, un
sens de l’histoire qui manque aux auteurs
contemporains, et, par-dessus tout, un style qui en porte l’empreinte
dépourvue
d’équivalent. » (Andreea Răsuceanu, Viaţa Românească, n°
8-9, 2006)
« Le
fabuleux, le
miraculeux, le surnaturel interfèrent avec la petite
histoire, à ras de terre, même en régime diurne. […] Un roman [Zogru]
consistant et
palpitant, une apparition totalement insolite dans le paysage
littéraire
actuel. » (Daniel
Cristea-Enache, România literară, n° 23, 13 juin 2008)
The Ghost in the Mill is
an imaginative novel, in line with autobiographical fiction, in
whichmagic realism and daily realism
intertwine.
[...] This mill, which is anaxis
mundi, the center, the hearth and the obsession of the village,
where the
character has no clue if he has met the angel or the devil,this mill is the place where a murder occurs,
as at the dawn of all worlds: a certain Max, an epileptic, is killed by
mistake
[...] and everybody is obliged to keep silent, thus becoming
accomplices in the
murder.We have all been accomplices in
what has defined and punished us. This is the parable of communism. A
novel
with substance, a sinewy prose which, I repeat, equals a part or
several parts
of Cărtărescu’s Orbitor”. (Dan C. Mihăilescu, Omul
care
aduce cartea, ProTV, 13 10 2008)
Doina Ruşti
has the vocation of a builder constructor,the
capacity to build a meaningful narrative and
exuberant imagination. If
asked to recommend certain characters,
pages or sequences from the second part of The
Ghost in the Mill, I wouldn’t know which to mention first, because
almost
all of them are remarkable. There is no doubt that it would be
far too
less if I only mentioned Săndina, the old cooperative worker, that
lurks around
the deserted mill and writes, without anybody suspecting her,
informative notes
for the Secret Police,the grotesque
Gabriel Neicuşoru, the unctuos physicist from the Phenomena Institute,
or the
terrifying scene where the mill is demolished.(Bianca Burţa
Cernat - Observator cultural, nr. 459, 29 01 2009
The Ghost in
the Mill(Polirom
Publishing House, 2008) is, from my point of view, the best novel
published
last year. Şerban Axinte – Observator
cultural, nr. 459, 29 01 2009
The characters drawn by Doina Rusti are incredibly genuine: the author
has the
rare gift of seeing things both in a synthetical and a contingent way,
including detail within the portrait. The core of the novel is the
second part: The Mill,being
slightly over 200 pages and
exceptional.It is this
time-space condensed sequence that reveals the great qualities of the
author;
these are the narrative construction and the capacity to suggest the
texture
(substance) of a certain humanity.Mihai Iovanel, Cultura, 29 01 2009, nr. 4
Doina Rusti is a mature, complete writer, one of the most professional
Romanian
writers today, with well-defined themes of work and a qualified view on
the way
literature should be written. Her talent does not necessarily stand for
her
ability to build phrases, but characters and situations which are not
only
convincing, but also give you the sentiment of contingency. The
imagined scenes
are stringent and their fall-like succession is overwhelming. The theme
of
communism suits very well with such a gifted writer,the demoniacal history of the terrible 45
years that Romania has undergone in the
isolated space of a village. (Doris
Mironescu - Suplimentul de cultură, 9-15 mai, 2009)
Doina
Rusti joins the elite of our
still youthful prose writers with her third novel, both ambitious and
masterful.
(...) The second part, the longest one (of The
Ghost in the Mill)is read and
assimilated with higher difficulty, as the description is a little too
detailed, almost journalistic. But it is worth reading. The whole
construction
is remarkable: the epic matter, both dense and fluid, typologically
diversified
and symbolically rearticulated; the varying rhythm, alert or slow, of
the
narrative; the clever assemblage and great control. And above
everything, an
obvious artistic maturity. Daniel
Cristea Enache - Timpuri noi, Ed. Polirom, 2009, p. 177
Livres et
articles sur Doina Rusti:
Daniel Cristea Enache -Timpuri
noi,Ed. Cartea
Romînească, 2009
Iolanda Malamen, Scris
si de scris, (Writing and to be Written) vol. III, Ed. M.LR,
2007
Dan C. Mihăilescu -Literatura
româneasca în postceausism.II.
Proza.Prezentul ca
dezumanizare, cap. Realismul apocaliptic si deriziunea, (Romanian
Literature in the Post-Ceauşescu Period. Vol. 2. Prose. The Present as
Dehumanisation, cap.Apocalyptic Realism and Derision), Ed. Polirom,
2006 Luminita Marcu -The
Land of All Opportunities,11
books contemporary romanian prose, Ed. Polirom, 2006
Const. Dram - Vinculum vinculorum sau lumea
de/pe lînga Alazar sau nu numai despre internet şi Platon (Vinculum
vinculorum or the World of/next to Alazar or not only about the
Internet and Plato), Convorbiri literare, Feb. (110), 2005
Geo Vasile - Hierointernetul sau certitudinea iluziei narrative (The
Hiero-internet or the Certitude of Illusory Narrative), Luceafărul, 6
April, 2005
Dan C. Mihăilescu -Femeie cu omuleţ (Woman with Little Man), Ziarul
de duminică, 8 April, 2005
Mara Magda Maftei -Drama omului în postmodernitate (The Human Drama
in Postmodernity), Viaţa Românească, no. 5, 2005
Tudor Negoescu - A kis vörös ember bennünk, A hét, August, 2005
Luminiţa Marcu - Un roman care ar fi meritat premii literare (A Novel
that ought to have deserved Literary Prizes), Ziua, 12 October 2005
Horia Gârbea, Nu vă feriţi de Zogru! Poate e oricum prea târziu...
(Don’t beware of Zogru! Maybe it’s already too late…), Săptămâna
financiară, 27 martie, 2006
Cristina Balinte, Un personaj năstruşnic şi o poveste salvată (A
Bizarre Character and a Salvaged Tale), Revista Cultura, 6 April,
2006
Constantin Dram, Zogru, Convorbiri literare, April, 2006
Alex Ştefănescu, Fantezie fără limite (Limitless Fantasy), România
literară, 21 April, 2006
Luminiţa Marcu - Doina Ruşti, pe fîşia îngustă dintre kitsch şi
literatură adevărată (Doina Ruşti, on the Narrow Strip between Kitsch
and Authentic Literature), Suplimentul de cultură, 29 April , 5 May
2006
Mihaela Spineanu - Cartea lunii: Zogru de Doina Ruşti (Book of
the Month; Zogru by Doina Ruşti), Elle magazine, April, 2006
Jean-Lorin Sterian, Doina Rusti - Zogru, Tabu magazine, June, 2006
Ovidiu Verdeş, Proba celui de al doilea roman (The Test of the Second
Novel), Cuvântul, June 2006
Andreea Răsuceanu, “Zogru”- între saga marqueziană şi romanul de
atmosferă (“Zogru” – between Marquez-esque Saga and Novel of
Atmosphere), Revista Viaţa Românească, no. 8-9, 2006
Gabriel Coşoveanu - Cu înţelegere despre duhuri (With Understanding
among Spirits), Ramuri, no. 9, September, 2006
Lucian Alecsa - O noua entitate literara (A New Literary Entity),
Evenimentul de Botoşani, 20 October, 2006
Luminita Corneanu -Revenirea la poveste (Return to Storytelling),
Mozaicul, year 10, no. 5 (103), 2007 Dumitru Augustin Doman-
Avatarurile unui duh, Argeş, martie, 2008 Daniel Cristea-Enache- Un
vampir de treabă, România literară Nr.23 din 13 Iunie 2008
Gabriel Cosoveanu:Spectral
Messages,Ramuri,
No. 10, October, Craiova, 2008
Horia Garbea -Editorial
News - The ghost in the mill,Financial
Week, Bucureşti, 03 10 2008 andLuceafarul,
Bucureşti, No. 32/2008
Dan C. Mihailescu -The
ghost in the mill, Pro TV,Omul
care aduce cartea, Bucuresti, 13 10 2008
Constantin Dram -The
labirinthic Memory, rev.Convorbiri
literare, Iasi, No. 10, October 2008
Dan C. Mihailescu -The
ghost in the mill, Pro TV,Omul
care aduce cartea, Bucuresti, 13 10 2008
Gabriela
Gheorghişor -Spectrul
memoriei (The Spectrum of the memory), Dilemateca, decembrie, 2008 Paul
Cernat-
Comunismul românesc în moara realismului magic (The
Romanian Communism in the Mill of magic realism)Bucureştiul
cultural,Revista 22, 2. 12.
2008 Daniel
Cristea-Enache - Un tovarăş de sus, Romania literară, nr. 1, 2009 Daniel Cristea-Enache -Moara roşie(The Red Mill),
Evenimentul zilei, 4 feb., 2009 Mihai Iovanel,Travelling circular,
Cultura, 29 01 2009, nr. 4 Bianca Burţa Cernat -Reabilitarea iluziei
realiste(TheRehabilitation of Realistic Illusion),
Observator cultural, nr. 459, 29 01 2009 Şerban Axinte -Memorie şi suspans,(Memory
and Suspense)Observator
cultural, nr. 459, 29 01 2009 Dan Cristea -În căutarea originilor(In seeking the origins),
Luceafărul, 11 feb. 2009-04-16 Cristina Balinte- Fantoma şi fantasmele,
Cultura, 10 feb. 2009 Adriana Bittel -The Ghost in the Mill,
Formula AS, nr. 854, 21 02/2009 Ovidiu Şimonca - Fără
patetisme, o poveste cu o fată căreia îi plac croasantele (Lizoanca),
Observator cultural, nr, 465, 2009 Constantin Dram -Realitatea în luptă cu
ficţiunea, Convorbiri literare, aprilie, 2008 Tania Radu -Vitalitatea
cu sens negativ (Lizoanca), Revista 22, 7 aprilie, 2009etc.
