Doina
Ruști

Lizoanca at the age of eleven (Lizoanca la 11 ani)

Lizoanca at the age of eleven (Lizoanca la 11 ani) - Doina Ruști
Litera Publishing, Bucharest, 2023 (Romanian)
Lizoanca at the age of eleven (Lizoanca la 11 ani) - Doina Ruști
Štrik Publishing, Belgrad, 2021 (Serbian)
Lizoanca at the age of eleven (Lizoanca la 11 ani) - Doina Ruști
Antolog Publishing, Skopje, 2015 (Macedonian)
Lizoanca at the age of eleven (Lizoanca la 11 ani) - Doina Ruști
Orpheusz Publishing, Budapesta, 2015 (Hungarian)
Lizoanca at the age of eleven (Lizoanca la 11 ani) - Doina Ruști
Traspiés Publishing, Granada, 2014 (Spanish)
Lizoanca at the age of eleven (Lizoanca la 11 ani) - Doina Ruști
Horlemann Publishing, Berlin, 2013 (German)
Lizoanca at the age of eleven (Lizoanca la 11 ani) - Doina Ruști
Rediviva Publishing, Milano, 2013 (Italian)
Lizoanca at the age of eleven (Lizoanca la 11 ani) - Doina Ruști
Trei Publishing, Bucharest, 2009 (Romanian)
Lizoanca at the age of eleven (Lizoanca la 11 ani) - Doina Ruști
Polirom Publishing, 2017 (Romanian)

Lizoanca is a groundbreaking book written in a style refined and nuanced.

Lizoanca deals with a time span of four decades where in a small community all sorts of compromises occur, eventually leading up to disasters, and gaining their momentum as a little girl is accused of infesting the whole village with syphilis, eventually succeeding in coping with the atrocities the grown ups had been cooking up for her. I started off from a real case, which at that time enjoyed a wide media coverage, but I did not use the real facts; I fictionalized the story. What makes the core of the novel - and I believe that was precisely why the Romanian Academy awarded the novel – is the fact that people forgot their traditions, forgot the significance of a Christian monogram and that’s where everything starts from. I’m speaking about a monogram discovered by Vasile Parvan and dated 230 AD: “Sic tibi terra levis” (May the earth rest lightly on you). The real topic of the novel is the fact that people forgot their traditions.

Berlin, 2013, Roman Embassy: Jan Cornelius, Doina Ruști, Georg Aesch, Gabriela Adameșteanu more

About Lizoanca, 2009

Ramon Acin, Turia, nr 115, 2015

En esta línea, sorprende la capacidad de Doina Rusti a la hora de entrelazar la historia de Eliza (indagación en su personalidad infantil: valor de los zapatos, de los cruasa- nes...) con la historia de quienes la prostituyen (no olvidar las viejas cos- tumbres y tradiciones que sobre ellos revolotean). También sorprende la capacidad a la hora de reflotar, bajo una pátina amable, la hipocresía per- sonal y social o el tema de la violen- cia, impactante esta desde la primera frase, siempre visible en la novela y en permanente función erosiva.

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Doina Ruști: Lizoanca, Horlemann Verlag, Berlin, 2013
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