Morometii by Marin Preda – I already have three reviews of this work and the adaptations, but it is so monumental – well, sort of – in our parts that this makes sense – also, who reads lines in this obscure part of the internet? I think I have read that there are hundreds of thousands of influencers, content creators out there (maybe millions) and they count their audiences in billions, meanwhile, the blog and YouTube channel where I have more than five thousand reviews of magnum opera from the Greatest Books of All Time and other sites, and films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html count their clicks in hundreds

 

Morometii by Marin Preda – I already have three reviews of this work and the adaptations, but it is so monumental – well, sort of – in our parts that this makes sense – also, who reads lines in this obscure part of the internet? I think I have read that there are hundreds of thousands of influencers, content creators out there (maybe millions) and they count their audiences in billions, meanwhile, the blog and YouTube channel where I have more than five thousand reviews of magnum opera from the Greatest Books of All Time and other sites, and films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other lists https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html count their clicks in hundreds

 

 

8 out of 10

 

In fact, that rating is relative: the first volume is really good, but the rest of the novel is not just forgettable, it is to be avoided https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/morometii-by-marin-preda.html just like our divine professor of literature said: read the first part and forget about the rest of it

 

The first, good part of the narrative is about this Moromete family: Ilie is the father and ‘head of the unit’, although he is challenged by hid two adult sons, Achim and Paraschiv, prompted, pushed by Guica, their relative – I forgot if she is the sister of Ilie or what – and has to mediate, strike a balance between them and the rest of the household

 

He has to find the Golden Mean, Aristotle https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/aristotle-in-ninety-minutes-by-paul.html wrote about it: you have to be generous, but giving away all you have will mean your family becomes homeless, courage has to be temperated by wisdom, it is not brave to drive with 200 miles per hour

Indeed, you have to have almost the whole package, albeit it is advised to concentrate on your character strengths, you could also check the marvelous The How of Happiness by Sonja Lyubomirsky where you find the twelve activities that bring jubilation https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-how-of-happiness-by-sonja.html

 

The smart child is Niculae, though he is not in the best of health, he wins the first prize in school, but he does not feel well, as I remember…a constant conflict is at the center of the plot, Achim and Paraschiv on the one side, and Catrina with her daughters on the other, she is their step mother, and they want the property and all

In order to get what they think is their right, the two villains steal the sheep and go away, they were supposed to travel for the good of the family, but they take this opportunity and just elope, leaving the rest in what could be destitution, meanwhile, Ilie is pressed by the tax collector for what I remember was called

 

-          Fonciirea

 

I could check it, but why bother, besides, it feels so much better to be amazed at how on earth did I remember such an obscure term, never heard since, and that was maybe 40 years ago, unless they mention it in the movie adaptation, well, passons: Marin Preda was quite a paramount figure at one stage, the most prominent writer for some time

His Cel Mai Iubit Dintre Pamanteni https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/08/cel-mai-iubit-dintre-pamanteni-aka-goat.html was something like The Da Vinci Code for the rest of the world, only it did not have sales, it was banned for being subversive, however, Marin Preda was never a dissident, we had a few, but he was not in that group

 

I am proud of my participation in the 1989 revolution that took down Ceausescu, there is a link below, if you are still here and interested, Ceasusescu, his palace and fate are mentioned in an article in The Economist, which looks at…Trump and what he has done to the White House

 

Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation – I am on Goodreads as Realini Ionescu, at least for the moment, if I keep on expressing my views on Orange Woland aka TACO, it may be a short-lived presence

Also, maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the benefits from it, other than the exercise per se

 

 There is also the small matter of working for AT&T – this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know

 

As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/realini-in-newsweek-participant-in.html

 

Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works

 

‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…’

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