Natasha Alina Culea: ?It does not help me at all that I am a woman who cares to look good”

Natasha Alina Culea is a name which doesn’t belong to her anymore, a name which she gave as a gift to her readers – she says – it is a name printed on thousands of books in Romania and Moldova Republic, under six titles (in chronological order): “Natasha, the men and the psychoanalyst”, “Marat”, Wolves of the past”, “Nights in Monaco”, “Dreams never sleep”, and “The Harlequin” – the most recent novel, launched in December 2018. Sometimes she thinks she is a writer, other times a hermit or a peregrine, but she always loves her readers. After the novel “Wolves of the past” she wrote “Nights in Monaco” just to cheer up her readers who cried on her shoulders, demanding her happy-ending novels.

C&B: Describe or define your activity!

“Being a Romanian Author is a challenge, and the term challenge is a mild term if we refer to the confused and confusing situation of the Romanian book market of the Contemporary Literature. My only ambition is to give my readers a memorable reading and, being a perfectionist, I will evolve whether or not I have readers who will no longer keep up with the complexity of the writing I have intended to reach. In the end, the book also chooses the reader, not only the reader chooses the book. Either I find the way to bring together the essence of classical literature with the simplified structure of contemporary literature, resisting to the minimalist beletristic marasm wave, or I will not write at all. Because we are not allowed to negotiate with Romanian literature, which will remain many years after we will not be. I am by words as words: erudition, evolution, exemplarity”.

C&B: What important choices did you have to make and how did you decide?

“I have never placed myself under the sign of modesty or shyness, although my silence is quite awkwardly understood or confused with everything else except what it really is in reality. Since my first manuscript I have been contacted by one of the largest publishing houses in Romania – with which I didn’t work together, but this is a long story – and after the second novel, I didn’t even search for a publishing house, but I was only in the position of choosing the right one. After I wrote my novel The Harlequin I made the decision to take care of my books in a new modus operandi, so all six novels are being reprinted and reconfigured by me. Is it a good idea? I think so, we will see”.

C&B: Which were your visions in childhood/adolescence and which are now?

“If during my adolescence I understood things as others understood them, I later built up my own believes system, which had almost nothing in common with the generally accepted ones, and eventually ended up being configured on the idealistic adolescent model, but also taking into consideration the existing paradigms, which I have no control over. 

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