- Paperback: 119 pages
- Publisher: Shearsman Books (1 Sep 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0907562361
- ISBN-13: 978-0907562368
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 12.7 x 0.7 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,455,376 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'The Dance at Mociu' is a collection of some thirty short, poetic prose pieces concerning Transylvania, the area of Romania that Peter Riley and his wife visit every year. Part travel report, part story, part epiphany, these luminous pieces cast light onto a mysterious area of 'Old Europe' where clashing empires and ever-changing borders ensured that nothing remained stable but the old traditions and wonderful music.
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Most of them I call "factual stories". That is to say, things did happen more-or-less as described (or failed to, or appeared to, both of which I accept), and personal and place names are unaltered, but they remain constructed things. Those I don’t call factual stories I call prose-poems, which means that rather less than nothing happened but there was a certain something in the air. We went there in search of music; everything else was glimpsed out of the corner of the eye, and hung on the frailty of singular instances. But instances which clearly could not occur anywhere else.
Peter Riley, from the Preface to the book.
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