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[ Buchtipp von Europäische Literaturtage ] “Everyday life in Moldavia is extremely brutal – if I had to explain how it is, one to one, I’d have to become even more coarse. We have a massive identity crisis, and we are Europe’s poorest country. So we need external enemies: Germans, Americans and Arabians. Or we take out the abuse on women.”
This quotation from an interview in the TAZ daily newspaper offers some explanation of why Nicoleta Esinencu’s play “FUCK YOU, Eu.ro.Pa!” not only caused a scandal in Moldavia. Esinencu does not shy away from indulging her love of speaking the language she hears and absorbs every day.

“FUCK YOU” is the monologue of a young woman who explains to her father why (as part of a writing competition) she has no answer for the question: “What has my country done for me and how have I returned the favour?” Her account of this question – and her country – means that she actually does understand how to do something in return for what she has been given. Using mockery, hatred and strong language, she tries to express what she missed out hearing in her youth amidst standard phrases such as “Privatization. Modernization. Federalization. Globalization. Legalizing. Devaluing. Standardizing. Popularizing.” She missed honest feelings and genuine gestures. “FUCK YOU” represents the globally unmistakeable outcry against a world, which is devoted to profit and without concern for the losses, and this is even more unashamedly true in the Eastern block as opposed to the West.

(BM)

[ Info ] Esinencu, Nicoleta: Fuck you, Eu.ro.Pa! . (original language: Deutsch) Aus dem Rumän. von Helga Kopp. Edition Solitude, Stuttgart, 2005 .