Corin Braga

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rdf:langString Corin Braga

rdf:langString Corin Braga

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rdf:langString Corin Braga is a Romanian scholar and prose writer. He is a university professor in comparative literature and the Dean of the Faculty of Letters at the Babes-Bolyai University. He is also the director of Phantasma, the Center for Imagination Studies in Cluj-Napoca, and of the academic journal Caietele Echinox. He is a correspondent member of the Academia Nacional de Ciencias de Buenos Aires, Argentina, the vice-president of the Romanian Association of General and Comparative Literature and the vice-president of the Centre de Recherches Internationales sur l’Imaginaire. Braga's most famous work is Noctambulli, a series of four novels written in Oniric style of writing, which is a writing technique introduced by the Romanian Onirist writers in the 1960s. Three books in the series, Claustrofobul, Hidra, and Luiza Textoris were published in 1992, 1996 and 2012 respectively. The fourth book of the series is slated for a 2019 release. He has also written two journals of dreams, Oniria (1985-1995), in 1999, and Acedia.(1998-2007), in 2014. The latter received critical acclaim and won Great Prize at FestLit (National Festival of Literature) Cluj. Braga is also known for his work in European comparative literature on the topic of the failed quest of literary characters to find Paradise, Utopia or other sacred places on Earth, on which he has written five books.