Mirel Cană
Mirel Cană (1957-2020) was a Romanian novelist, who wrote under the name Șerban Alexandru.[1]
Life
[edit]Mirel Cană studied philology at Iași University, and taught Romanian literature from 1982 to 1990. He was an editor at Editura Junimea in Iași from 1990 to 1992, and then a curator at the National Museum of Romanian Literature in Iași.[2] In the decades following the Romanian Revolution, he also ran writers’ workshops in Iași.[1]
His novels Mallarmé, Albedo and An Angel, a Dog, an Image form the first three volumes of a tetralogy, Benedict and Maledict. The fragmented, 'kaleidoscopic' style of An Angel, a Dog, an Image has been compared to the work of Camilo José Cela.[3]
Works
[edit]- (as Șerban Alexandru) Zgomotul de fond: roman [Background Noise: a novel]. Iaşi: Junimea, 1992.
- (as Șerban Alexandru) Mallarmé. 1995. Forthcoming in English translation by Alistair Ian Blyth as Mallarmé, Dalkey Archive Press, 2021. ISBN 9781628973440
- Albedo. 1995.
- (as Șerban Alexandru) Omul e mort: noua poema română [Man Is Dead: a new Romanian poem]. Iaşi: Junimea, 2001.
- (as Mirel Cană) Diagnostic [Diagnosis]. Bucharest: Humanitas, 2010. With a foreword by Ioanel C. Sinescu.
- Un înger, un cîine, o imagine: roman [An Angel, a Dog, an Image: a novel]. Iași: Polirom, 2015.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Mirel Cană (1957-2020), Dalkey Archive Press. Accessed December 19, 2020.
- ^ Serban Alexandru (2021). Mallarmé. Dalkey Archive Press. ISBN 978-1-62897-344-0.
- ^ Flavius Paraschiv, Șerban Alexandru și romanul caleidoscopic, cronica literară, October 2016. Accessed 19 December 2020.