A small-sized novel about the Moldovan village entitled “Last mind of the village” was launched by Bessarabian writer and journalist Olga Căpățână, who has lived in Paris for many years, in Chisinau on June 5. The event held at the Municipal Library “B.P Hasdeu” gathered together friends, relatives and admirers of her works, IPN reports.
In the launch, writer Maria Pilkin said the novel is about particular generations and about non-asphalted and muddied roads in Moldovan villages where some of the children grow, while others leave, but the village remains a DNA of the existence of those who remained in the village. The novel is about the village that lives, but is full of such vices as drinking, beating and gossips. The theme of the Moldovan village is now overlooked by the national writers, not yet by those who left home.
Literary critic Aliona Grati said the novel is a warning about an imminent danger, about things that do not go well in the Moldovan villages. In the case of the village described by Olga Căpățână, the reaction of the village is too late to change something and the village is thus dying. The novel urges to put things right.
Literary critic Ludmila Shimanschi noted the text of the novel is like a plea that the life is good and bad and depicts the history of the Moldovan nation. “The village speaks and judges and starts to realize things as a result of painful lessons. It is a novel by which the village calls on us to accept it as it is, with the last mind,” she stated.
“All my novels are uninvited books that describe what I experienced in life. Someone may ignore a story told my a person, but I collect them in a bag and take them out at a certain moment. The heroes of my books appear from this bag of stories, memories and happenings from my life and the life of those who relate me things,” stated Olga Căpățână.
The novel was published at the ARC publishing house with a print run of 1,000 copies. It is available from the Librarius bookstores for about 50 lei.
Olga Căpățână was born in Lencăuți village of Ocnița district in 1954. She graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the Balti State University “Alecu Russo”. She took part in the Afghanistan war and in the war for defending the territorial integrity and independence of the Republic of Moldova. When she returned from war, Olga Căpățînă started to write poems, novels and books for children.
