Un Boem Roman la New York

This is a book about Constantin Aronescu, a Romanian bohemian exiled in New York City. The idea of writing this book was born on the day when I first stepped into the "attic of pain", the studio on the 43rd Street in Manhattan, New York, where Constantin Aronescu lived. He had resided there for nearly two decades. At first it was wonderful, and he also had a few fellow Romanians who had received, just like him, this type of social housing with subsidized rent by the city. Time passed,...
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This is a book about Constantin Aronescu, a Romanian bohemian exiled in New York City. The idea of writing this book was born on the day when I first stepped into the "attic of pain", the studio on the 43rd Street in Manhattan, New York, where Constantin Aronescu lived. He had resided there for nearly two decades. At first it was wonderful, and he also had a few fellow Romanians who had received, just like him, this type of social housing with subsidized rent by the city. Time passed, people grew old, and his Romanian co-tenants either died or moved to other neighborhoods. He grew old too, and toward the end of life found himself left alone. The book aims to create, in a nostalgic manner, the last period of Constantin Aronescu's life, those years of solitude between the walls of a studio that squeezed him day by day, night by night. It was a procrastination space of illusory happiness, a place in which he was deliberately incarcerated by the fear of the world, the multitude of years, the hardship of poverty and the disappointments of life. Once inside the studio, it forever sealed his destiny - as once he entered Bohemia, it seized his body and mind, embalming them with its fragrances. Nostalgic and evocative, built on the pattern of comfortable loneliness and complete wastefulness under a universe of overflowing fantasy, "A Romanian Bohemian in New York" is a book that tells the story of a man captive within himself, who lives his life believing that he is dead and dies believing that he will remain alive. It is a story of a Romanian Don Quijote strayed into the land of empty promises, seeking the logic of his destiny among stanzas and collages.