In so-called communist Romania, chess was held in high esteem, even if our champions were weaker than the Soviets. This game, this "sport of the mind…

- Dumitru Tepeneag

The narrative image has more dimensions than the painted image - literature is more complex than painting. Initially, this complexity represents a di…

- Dumitru Tepeneag

Our Onirisme movement was a synthesis between the Romantic Fantastique and Surrealism. Dimov and I rejected automatic writing. We loved surrealist pa…

- Dumitru Tepeneag

But music doesn't sum up my approach to literature - even in Vain Art of the Fugue. To 'fugue' I had to invent 'trap-words,' or words that would forc…

- Dumitru Tepeneag

I was a professional chess player in Romania, but only a small-time master. When I came to France, I continued playing chess for many years: I played…

- Dumitru Tepeneag

It's not the subject of narration that interests me, but the structure. That's why I stay in touch with my old works, which I reread regularly. I don…

- Dumitru Tepeneag

Seine et Danube was launched in 2003 with the help of Romanian authorities who had finally realized the necessity of promoting literature and Romania…

- Dumitru Tepeneag

For me, literature is the daughter of music: a bit heavy and more level headed than its mother. Literature submits to the same principles of successi…

- Dumitru Tepeneag

The reader's impression is one of a dream - the only thing that's left upon waking is the memory of a melody at the end of a concert.

- Dumitru Tepeneag