Luminitza C. Tigirlas
Luminitza C. Tigirlas, of Romanian origin, born in eastern Moldova, occupied and annexed by the Soviets, is a survivor of linguistic assimilation in the USSR. In her early career, she wrote in Romanian, her mother tongue, set within the foreign Cyrillic script imposed by the Soviet regime in the Republic of Moldova before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Her language grapples with these traumatic traces. A Doctor of Psychopathology and Psychoanalysis from Paris-Diderot-Paris 7 University, after practicing in Paris and Saint-Priest (Lyon metropolitan area), she is a trilingual psychoanalyst in Montpellier. A poet and writer in French, she has published numerous books of poetry, literary essays, and works of fiction.
The narrator of these nine short stories is a man as he can be, both through and despite the words that betray him, promising him either to the violin's ecstasy or to an equally unheard-of variation of this sonority-induced malaise where one loses one's body through the voice, captive to an untranslatable secret that reverberates in the ear. With each of his attempts to take form, the narrator seems forever another tormented soul, "as if," he says, "I were not completely innocent," thus casting doubt on his integrity. Language leads the way, surprising the protagonists on the edge of what resonates in the uncanny, confronting their beings with the unexpected within themselves and the unsettling in the other. Publication: April 1, 2025 Order Press Release
