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Postscript to A Portrait of M

Matei Călinescu

For a writer, it's enough to put on paper and publish a book like A Portrait of M to immediately stand out from the vast group of "literature-makers", of craftsmen of empty words that don't describe, express or cost anything. The experience transfigured in this book, which critical superlatives could only unconvincingly and remotely describe, is a three-fold one. Father, friend and writer: three roles and...