Se la scrittura è viva e le cose che si raccontano interessanti, un romanzo epistolare – così possiamo definire Gli ultimi eretici dell’Impero – suona ancora come un’ottima concertazione per tenerci avvinti a una storia. O a molte storie, come nel caso di questa seconda uscita italiana del quarantenne romeno Vasile Ernu, del quale l’editore Hacca aveva tradotto un paio di anni fa Nato in Urss. Molte storie si scambiano in effetti i due personaggi del libro, A.I., detto “Il Grande Istigatore” e Vasilij Andreevič, vicende del presente e fatti del passato, piccole storie e grandi segnaposti della Storia novecentesca, oscillanti fra il totalitarismo dell’Europa orientale e il disinganno delle democrazie liberali d’Occidente.
Author
Vasile Ernu (born 1971 in the USSR) graduated at the Faculty of Philosophy in Iasi (Al. I. Cuza University, Iasi, Romania) and has a master's degree in philosophy (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania). He was one of the founding editors of Philosophy&Stuff magazine and associated editor of Idea arta+societate magazine. He published his first book, Born in the USSR, in 2006, which was translated into Russian and in Bulgarian. The book was nominated for prizes such as: the Prize for debut of the Cuvîntul magazine, the Prize for Fiction and Memoirism Observator Cultural, or for Opera Prima of the Anonimul Foundation. The volume was distinguished with the Prize for debut of România Literara magazine and the Prize for debut of the Union of the Writers in Romania. His second book The Last Heretics of the Empire was published by Polirom Publishing House in 2009.
