by Panait Istrati · Universidad Autónoma de Madrid · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483443590
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«Codin: Infancia de Adrian Zografi» is the novel by Panait Istrati, published by Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in paperback (127 pages, in Spanish).
Adrian Zografi, a boy from rural Romania in the late nineteenth century, settles with his mother in the port suburb of Braila. There he meets Codin, an ex-convict recently released from prison and viewed with suspicion by the neighbourhood; Adrian offers him his friendship and finds in him a refuge.
Originally published in 1926 as «Codine»; translated from the French by María Sol Kliczkowski. Part of the «Libros de la Ballena» collection.
For readers of classic European fiction and university students interested in Romanian literature.
Panait Istrati (Romanian: [panaˈit isˈtratʲ]; sometimes rendered as Panaït Istrati; was a Romanian working class writer, who wrote in French and Romanian, nicknamed The Maxim Gorky of the Balkans. Istrati appears to be the first Romanian author explicitly depicting a homosexual character in his work.
