Real Fiction / Titela Durnea, translated by Andreea-Iulia Ciucă: A Tangled-Up Obituary

For those in the know, I am the picture of exaggeration: the anthill is the mountain, a drop of rain is a torrential downpour caused by a meteorological deity called Elijah. And they found themselves giving me the task of writing the obituary of Petrică, an insipid provincial teacher with no vocation. I wrote an eulogy, and since I write a sentence that runs to dozens of pages, you can imagine …