Trafika Europe 8 - Romanian Holiday

T. O. Bobe

T.O. Bobe (born 1969 in Constanţa, Romania) is a poet and writer for film and television. His oddly beguiling cult classic Bucla (Curl) was republished last year in a deluxe Romanian edition. It’s a series of 37 prose-ish/poem-ish pieces about Mr. Gica, the world’s greatest barber. The series uses its mundane subject to stage a meditation on Romanticism, irony, and sincerity, through poems about and by Mr. Gică, and his world of opera singers, football players, gladiators, the secret police, fantasies of Edith Piaf, four lost hippies, and other ludic figures. This is its English-language debut.