The Daily Agony of Theophil Magus

About the Book

Author’s Confession:

The Daily Agony of Theophil Magus
Jazz & Blues Haiku Novel for Anna-Maria

Dear Reader,

In the beginning of the twenty-one century, year 2011, somewhere in the North-East of the USA’s Promised Land of Loneliness, there is a dwarfish State where, more or less, the people’s life is flowing under the irrefutable conclusion of the officer from Kafka’s “Penal Colony”: “Guilt is always beyond any doubt”. Yes, this is the supreme commandment. Yes, the almighty State and its Police & Justice rule everything and everyone. Human kind and Nature, as well. Personal life, family, children, alas! children; culture and religion are no more than some ridiculous ghosts of a lost free-world . . .

For a genuine artist the daily life here is nothing else but an endless swamp of sadness, distress and finally, death.

How could you describe such a tragic reality using the way of a classic or contemporary novel? For me - no doubt - the “normal” way . . . definitely is a dead end.

Therefore - I used again the Haiku (yes, this is my second Haiku Novel; the first one I published in 2007 under the title: “Theophil Magus in Baton Rouge - a Haiku Novel”).

Dear Reader, you have here almost 170 haiku composing the novel of the daily agony of Theophil Magus inside that dwarfish State of the USA’s Promised Land of Loneliness.

Yet, now you have something never made before in the literature worldwide: also, you have almost 170 jazz and blues masterpieces of great musicians . . . No question, I offer you almost 170 jazz and blues pieces for almost 170 haiku . . .

Every haiku is ended and splendidly illustrated by a jazz or blues masterpiece, having the title and the name of the musician or band who performs it, as it’s displayed on youtube.com. Indeed, you “click” on youtube.com, listen the jazz or blues masterpiece and . . . read my haiku . . .

Beyond a doubt, you will get the thrilling, you will feel your own catharsis - you will live the Daily Agony of Theophil Magus.

And - one day, probably you will be free . . .

About the Author

LEONARD OPREA - one of the most interesting East-European novelist, poet and essayist.Former anti-communist dissident and forbidden writer under the Romanian Dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu. Leonard Oprea’s works are well-known in Europe, America, Asia, Australia. Author of The X-Ray of an Instant and The Straitjacket, novels banned by the Romanian Communist Dictatorship. Also, author of Theophil Magus in Baton Rouge – a haiku novel, Trilogy of Theophil Magus – The Truth, The Daily Agony of Theophil Magus, Theophil Magus in Boston, novels, essays and poetry, works published in the USA and well appreciated worldwide. Leonard Oprea created the first "haiku-novel" and the "Breathing", a genuinely different type of essay in the whole world culture. Today, Leonard Oprea lives in the USA.