Viaţa e mai mult decât scrisul, îmi spun asta practic în fiecare zi, dar, îmi spun şi asta, eu nu pot percepe viaţa decât prin scris, e diformitatea, monstruozitatea mea. De-asta nu pot renunţa la literatură, cum am vrut de-atâtea ori. „Leapădă-ţi pielea, e cel mai greu organ al corpului tău, nu vezi cât te gârboveşte? Fără piele ai fi mult mai dezinvolt şi mai fericit, poate-ai putea chiar să zbori.” Da, dar fără piele n-aş putea trăi.
Author
Romanian poet, novelist, essayist and a professor at the University of Bucharest. Born in Bucharest, he graduated from the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Letters, Department of Romanian Language And Literature, in 1980. Between 1980 and 1989 he worked as a Romanian language teacher, and then he worked at the Writers Union and as an editor at the Caiete Critice magazine. In 1991 he became a lecturer at the Chair of Romanian Literary History, part of the University of Bucharest Faculty of Letters. As of 2010, he is an associate professor. Between 1994-1995 he was a visiting lecturer at the University of Amsterdam. Among his writings: "Nostalgia" (a full edition of the earlier published "Visul"), 1993, "Travesti" 1994, "Orbitor" 2001, "Enciclopedia zmeilor" ("The Encyclopedia of Dragons") 2002, "Pururi tânãr, înfãsurat în pixeli" ("Forever young, convolved in pixels") 2002, "De ce iubim femeile" bestseller ("Why do we love women") 2004.
