Short Prose

Dumitru Tsepeneag began publishing short fiction in Romania in the late 1960s, a period when the country's cultural climate loosened somewhat after Stalin's death. He became known for developing oneirism, a literary method built on dreamlike logic that set itself against socialist realism and, more broadly, against conventional realism.

The authorities later turned against this movement. Within a few years of the early 1970s, oneirism was suppressed, and Tsepeneag left Romania for a life in exile in France.

This first volume of his Short Prose gathers the three story collections he released in Romania before leaving: Exercises (1966), Cold (1967) and Waiting (1971). It also includes shorter pieces from the same years that had never been published before.