Microscopic Twists

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Microscopic Twists is written by Cornéliu Tocan and published by Créatique. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 2981843435 (ISBN 10) and 9782981843432 (ISBN 13).

(Micro)preface Writing the first words of the first published book of a young man of great talent is a heavy responsibility. In his Microscopic Twists, Cornéliu Tocan has managed to chisel the end of a feather from which only flows the ink necessary to offer us this amazing series of microstories. The word economy, the time economy and the space economy meet the richness of the images, that of the vocabulary and that of the effect of surprise. I have repeatedly paraphrased St-Exupery: perfection is not achieved when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing more to remove. It would be foolish to think that Twitter would be the perfected Proust, because it would miss the style, inherent in any literature. Cornéliu, on the other hand, did literature. His style is there, the narrative common thread is solid, and it weaves before our eyes. The unexpected is born in the meandering of its twists, where drunkenness, derision, audacity, sensuality or delirium mingle. At 16, I discovered the fifty-one short stories of Dino Buzzati in Il colombre. At the age of 16, also, Cornéliu Tocan makes me to discover his fifty microstories. From then on, twenty-five years passed. Same emotion, in fewer words. Style exercise? Probably, yes. Who has never started by writing a word can only know what it costs to write a book? Didactic exercise? I do not believe: Cornéliu has already imposed himself as much by substance as by form and he still imposes by the tenacity to bring this project to fruition by offering it to us. By sharing here the fruits of his exercises, Cornéliu galvanizes our desire to read, to stay ahead of his texts, to always have a little more. But it is only at the beginnings of something more important, and I would ask you to insist that he offer us many more. Nicolas F. Paquin UNEQ Member Quebec Union of Writers