Pigeon Post

Here is a book about a man, supposedly a writer, who tries to write a novel, because he promised his readers he would. But he doesnt have anything to say. He keeps erasing what he writes, and rewriting it, without having the slightest idea where hes going with it. Soon enough he realizes that looking out of the window, sitting in front of his typewriter, describing anything and everything, is not enough to write a novel. His three friends, Edmond, Edgar, and Edouard, will aid him in his task . . . Pigeon Post will be the second book Dalkey Archive has published by the Romanian writer Dumitru Tsepeneag (after the critically acclaimed Vain Art of the Fugue), and the press will be publishing more of his works in the years to come. "[Vain Art of the Fugue] is a work of singular invention and joy, a successful experiment in every aspect of the novel, especially delight." -The Believer "With his metaphors and traps, Dumitru Tsepeneag reminds me of a magician who pulls flowers, animals, and strange objects out of his hat. He lays comical stories over a poignant, and often grim, background." -Journal de Geneve "[Tsepeneag] induces the sense that memory, time, and consciousness are both mutable and, ultimately, unknowable." -Elizabeth Hand, Village Voice "Reading Romanian writer Dumitru Tsepeneags Vain Art of the Fugue is like having a dream, and then remembering it in that diaphanous, vague, next-morning way a dream is recollected. This is a good thing." -The Quarterly Conversation