The main character of this story, Tony Pavone, a Romanian constructor engineer, was hired by contract to work in the capital of Greece for a series of industrial buildings, as a result of the Greek investors' favorable appreciation for his professional capacity and promptness in releasing on time the orders he had received. An unfortunate happening made him get contaminated with radioactive toxin's whose poisonous substance burst out very strongly every four weeks causing him each time severe paralysis for at least three days running. During this period he was hallucinating fallen into a coma which could lead to a fatal end !! But being built with a sturdy body and having a high willpower to survive, he fought assiduously the malady and after two years of fear and death menace, the toxins got gradually lessened to a total dissipation. He fell in love with a beautiful Greek girl and decided to marry her. Their relationship got closer and closer and after seven years of activity in Athens, they made plans to go for a longer vacation to Bucharest, Tony Pavone's birth place. He intended in his hidden thoughts, not to return to Greece any more aiming to start business in his native country.
The main character of this story, Tony Pavone, a Romanian constructor engineer, was hired by contract to work in the capital of Greece for a series of industrial buildings, as a result of the Greek investors' favorable appreciation for his professional capacity and promptness in releasing on time the orders he had received. An unfortunate happening made him get contaminated with radioactive toxin's whose poisonous substance burst out very strongly every four weeks causing him each time severe paralysis for at least three days running. During this period he was hallucinating fallen into a coma which could lead to a fatal end !! But being built with a sturdy body and having a high willpower to survive, he fought assiduously the malady and after two years of fear and death menace, the toxins got gradually lessened to a total dissipation. He fell in love with a beautiful Greek girl and decided to marry her. Their relationship got closer and closer and after seven years of activity in Athens, they made plans to go for a longer vacation to Bucharest, Tony Pavone's birth place. He intended in his hidden thoughts, not to return to Greece any more aiming to start business in his native country.
The aim of these lecture notes is to give an introduction to several mathematical models and methods that can be used to describe the behaviour of living systems. This emerging field of application intrinsically requires the handling of phenomena occurring at different spatial scales and hence the use of multiscale methods.Modelling and simulating the mechanisms that cells use to move, self-organise and develop in tissues is not only fundamental to an understanding of embryonic development, but is also relevant in tissue engineering and in other environmental and industrial processes involving the growth and homeostasis of biological systems. Growth and organization processes are also important in many tissue degeneration and regeneration processes, such as tumour growth, tissue vascularization, heart and muscle functionality, and cardio-vascular diseases.
Though best known now for his novels, this collection of pre-exile short stories by the renowned Romanian author and “onirist” not only show Dumitru Tsepeneag at his best, but provide a glimpse into the secret history of surrealism uunder the brutal regime of Nicolae Ceauşescu. Though best known now for his novels, this collection of pre-exile short stories by the renowned Romanian author and “onirist” not only show Dumitru Tsepeneag at his best, but provide a glimpse into the secret history of surrealism uunder the brutal regime of Nicolae Ceauşescu. In these stories, life is both banal and bizarre, on the verge of breaking down, like a film loop played once too often, with the hot glare of irrationality always waiting to burn through. Looking forward to Vain Art of the Fugue and back to Breton, Waiting is a subversive delicacy.
A man lies sleepless in a foul-smelling room while raucous noises come from next door, and women--past and present, real or imagined--pass through his mind. From these few elements, Romanian author Dumitru Tsepeneag builds a dreamlike world both ancient and contemporary, and as mesmerizing as that in his critically acclaimed "Vain Art of the Fugue." Praised by Emil Cioran for its precise and masterly evocation of sensual detail, "The Necessary Marriage" confirms Tsepeneag's position as one of the most important Eastern European writers of the post-communist era.
In the late-1960s Romania, during the relative cultural thaw of the post-Stalinist period, Dumitru Tsepeneag emerged as an innovative writer of short prose and the pioneer of oneirism, a subversive theory and practice of literature that challenged not only socialist realism in particular but realism in general. By the early 1970s, following a cultural crackdown by the totalitarian state, oneirism had been banned and Tsepeneag was forced into exile in France. Short Prose, Volume 1, collects the three volumes of short stories that Tsepeneag published in Romania before going into exile: Exercises (1966), Cold (1967), and Waiting (1971), along with previously unpublished shorter texts from the same period.
Life under communism is cruel and inhumane. Commit the smallest political infraction, and the secret police will arrest you. The only ray of hope is the West, but getting out from communism is difficult. Communist countries have a “Berlin Wall” around them. It is a crime to escape by crossing the border illegally, and anyone caught is beaten and imprisoned, sometimes even shot. I was eighteen, and I was living in hell. However, I would rather have died than keep living as a communist slave. This is my story of what happened and how I reached freedom.
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