The book published in Bucharest in 2011 under the title "La masa cu Marx" marks Matei Visniec's return to poetry... "Dinner with Marx" is composed of small poetic pieces that resemble skits. Funny, painful, absurd, fantastic, satirical, often theatrical, always singular, each reminds us that the Romanian writer, exiled in France under Ceausescu, is also a playwright... The author takes us into a universe constantly threatened by loss of meaning and negation of the individual...A bouquet of poems? No, a gathering of stinging nettles.
The book published in Bucharest in 2011 under the title "La masa cu Marx" marks Matei Visniec's return to poetry... "Dinner with Marx" is composed of small poetic pieces that resemble skits. Funny, painful, absurd, fantastic, satirical, often theatrical, always singular, each reminds us that the Romanian writer, exiled in France under Ceausescu, is also a playwright... The author takes us into a universe constantly threatened by loss of meaning and negation of the individual...A bouquet of poems? No, a gathering of stinging nettles.