Evanescent Love
Lamentations of a Loser.
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“I like to brag Didonna has been for some years my girlfriend, a tall lithe and rather voluptuous diva. As often before, she enthusiastically prepared for the trip by getting even better looking than nature made her from start. The previous night she bleached her naturally red hair to platinum blond. Her choice didn’t necessarily brush against my principles-- neither did her age of nearly fifty diminish my feelings. Maturity could be an asset in the female arsenal of charms, I mused often. The appearance of crow’s feet around a lady’s eyes may be marks of character, not unlike some cracks in the walls of a great old castle. Isn’t an ancient grand fort nobler than a brand new pretty little country house? Oh yes, I certainly say so, and in my eyes the dame looked rather the castle than the cute home sweet home. Defying the years, her irises had retained the azure blue of sunny autumnal skies much better than the rose-petal its vivid redness after wilting to somber, duller and darker shades.”
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‘Evanescent Love’ is the latest English language literary attempt by Ion Manta, a Romanian-American author. The story evokes the illicit love between a couple of middle-aged immigrants, and its unraveling during a back-and-forth journey across The United States. At another level, the story tries to be also a comment on some seemingly paradoxical intersections of the American societal, cultural, philosophic, and urban landscape in the 1990s, as these transpire diametrically opposed through the interplay of the main characters —Didonna and Dorel-- both naturalized Americans, and members of the Romanian community settled around Washington DC. The affair comes alive as a direct confession of the main male character, thus the author takes pains for staying impartial by limiting his role simply to that of the story’s recorder, stage setter and puppet master ruling over only the moves, frames and sequencing of episodes, but intent on withholding his personal opinions as much as possible, in a most relativistic, post modern-fashion.
About the Author
Ion Manta, a 74-year old author and visual artist of Romanian origin, immigrated to the United States 44 years ago, after defecting to the West during the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Following his retirement from the Federal Government in 1998, he authored six volumes of fiction in Romanian. ‘Evanescent Love’ is his second title in English.