Nicolae Oprea, Printre Optzecişti. După Școala De La Târgovişte, Editura Bibliotheca, Târgovişte, 2018

Nicolae Oprea’s books remark themselves through rigour, the reverberations of erudition and expressivity of his critical phrase. In these books, and especially in Provinciile imaginare, Nicolae Oprea expresses his predilection towards a segment of the Romanian prose characterised through the “pre-eminence of the space in connection with the character or the event”, through a synthetic vision which combines the existential openness and the deepness of ideas. His critical endeavour therefore highlights a reference horizon of fiction on the border of the imaginary with reality. Refusing an inflamed tonality and rhetoric, being a promoter of the neutral observation, albeit not entirely lacking in affectivity, Nicolae Oprea knows how to highlight the allure of the works’ shades and details, the point of his critical thinking being the balance between the critical concept, refined, essential, and the actual image of the work, the example which would justify the demonstration.