Metode

by Vlad Drăgoi

Genres: Romanian Literature, Poetry

80 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2013

About the author

Vlad Drăgoi s-a născut în 1987, la Codlea, unde trăiește și acum. A urmat cursurile Facultății de Litere din Brașov. A debutat cu volumul de proză Istoria artelor sau memoriile unui veleitar incognito la editura ieșeană Lumen, în 2009. În 2013 a urmat volumul de poezie Metode, la Casa de Editură Max Blecher, iar în 2015, volumul de poezie Eschiva, la editura Cartea Românească.

Blog: trubadurulcretz.blogspot.com.

Reviews

[Victor Morosoff · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nu am rezonat intru totul, dar e lesne de observat ca, sub invelisul frustrarii paroxistice, Vlad Dragoi descrie inca din acest volum candoarea ca pe cea mai sigura (ori poate singura) metoda de detasare. 3,9/5

[robotelul tau · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Yigru Zeltil · Rating 3 out of 5]

Looking for something extreme, radical, shocking, gross? Well, you probably won't find in current Romanian poetry anything more fitting than Vlad Drăgoi's Methods. If Constantin Acosmei (from Jucăria mortului) was a low-budget Bacovia living (of course, "half past dead") in misery, Vlad is a hi-fi, HD-ready terminator kid, degenerate "homo videns" of the 21th century, whose reactions are reduced to the basic, for whom life is just a violent cartoon or a video game. In one of the striking poems of the "macrometode" cycle (sorry for my storytelling), Vlad is interrupted by the doorbell while he was playing Assassin's Creed Brotherhood (obviously, he has to start the whole level again), at the door there is one of those persons from charitable organizations that seek donations, but Vlad pushes her in the kitchen, fries her on the gas cooker and watches her die in agony, is a bit annoyed that the corpse leaves au unpleasant smell and happily goes back in his room to play Assassin's Creed...

All these atrocities are served without a disclaimer (by the way, explicit language is the least shocking thing in here), without a morale. I'd obviously pinpoint that this remains a book, that you can have an intelligent discussion with the real Vlad Drăgoi and that, if he „promotes” violence (very few read such experimental poetry, but violent movies and superficial shows are a dime a dozen on TV), it is because we live in a world that promotes violence and hate. The biography of the character may give us some clues: Vlad is 26 years-old, seems to live in a dysfunctional family, is obviously very poor (claims that he would be happy with a... Happy Meal a day), always looks for jobs but doesn't seem to get one so he resumes playing Angry Birds, sends death threats to TV stars... oh, and as the back cover says, "there are a few very beautiful love stories"... so does sarcasm after all rears its head?

Did an innocent little murder ever crossed your mind while waiting in an enormous queue or being interrupted just as you were about to finish the #@! level!? Try this - though I don't know if you're feel any better. OK, this book, as a whole, is uncompromising (not even the so-called "love poems" are easy to swallow) and hard to forget, but the texts, as intense as they are, suffer from predictability and most of what the author had to say was already said in the first two cycles (though I'm personally more fond of the "gonzo" poems and the disturbingly fascinating "undertile people"). And some of the last poems in the book are simply not on the same par...

Methods may remain a classic example of rough-edged minimalism (with its virtues and especially limits), but I reckon Vlad Drăgoi will prove in the future that he has a knack for conceptual poetry.

[Hyperliteratura · Rating 5 out of 5]

Metode a apărut în anul 2013 la Casa de Editură Max Blecher, urmând astfel volumului de debut al scriitorului brașovean, anunțând că Vlad Drăgoi va fi un reper și un model pentru tânăra generație care vine din urmă cu speranța de „a da lovitura” pe plan literar, dar în același timp și cu teama de a spune ceea ce gândește – teamă pe care Drăgoi a depășit-o sau care poate că nu a existat niciodată. El confirmă, după debutul în proză, că scrie așa cum este nevoie la momentul actual în literatura română: sincer, concis, fără elogiul metaforei, despre sine și ca pentru sine.

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