Sorin Hadârcă's Reviews > Admiring Silence

An alternative portrayal of the immigrant. Not the entrepreneurial, smart person who takes destiny upon himself or herself, but one that has been betrayed by his or her own country, shuts up on the world and carries on failure by not talking about pain. A victim really, not a survivor.

It rung true, but the I didn't sense the conflict as liberating. Lots of sarcasm, self-pity and self-deception. A resolution is to break up the silence but there is fear, so much fear of ending up worse. The original sin of having left something behind, unfixed and broken, casts a long shadow. Anyway, good literature.