Description

A widower in his sixties looks back on his life. Once a university teacher, he has two children. He recalls childhood, young love, army life, and drunken nights. Music, books, close friends, and travel fill his memories. He also returns to his wishes and fantasies.

Liviu Ornea tells this work of fiction through one man's monologue. It explores old age, solitude, poor sleep, and bodily decline. The narrator hopes to face these changes with dignity. His learning seems to prepare him for death, at least in theory. But life upsets his plans and tests that sense of control.

The book asks how a person can accept approaching death. It also probes how memory works, rather than dwelling on lost youth. Sudden insights, gaps, and small falsehoods shape the past he recalls. His talk ranges across doubts, boredom, habits, and notes on his reading. Humour runs through this account of loss and fear.

This is Ornea's literary debut, part of the n’autor series. Its focus is the mind's struggle to make sense of a life.