The year is 1959, one of the darkest periods of Romania's communist
regime. Political prisoner Bruno Matei, a puppeteer of Italian
ancestry, has been released from jail a broken man, suffering from
amnesia. An uneasy relationship forms between `Matei Brunul' and
Bojin, the secret policeman who keeps him under constant
surveillance. Gradually, the secret police will try to remould
Matei's mind by rewriting his past, turning the puppeteer into a
puppet of the new totalitarian order. In parallel, a harrowing
second narrative reveals Matei's prison experiences: the story of
an innocent man physically and mentally crushed by the totalitarian
system, which explodes the manipulative fictions of the secret
police one by one. Matei Brunul was the first Romanian novel to
explore the carceral world of the former regime, but it is also a
subtle meditation on Heinrich von Kleist's On the Marionette
Theatre and the ways in which a totalitarian state and ultimately
fiction itself create and manipulate puppets.
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