Volume I
Marius Tianu
Volume I of a two-volume novel.
A novel inspired in part by real events.
Release 10 November 2026.
He had just turned forty. She had been gone for twenty years.
Andrei Jebeleanu, editor-in-chief of a Bucharest daily and a devoted student of his own excesses, wakes to find Dia, the vanished love of his youth, in the apartment no woman is allowed to enter. Within the hour he learns that his parents have died on a mountain road, in a crash that makes no sense. Soon a car is following him, and the only man he can turn to is his employer, Van D., media baron and the most powerful man in Romania.
Erudite, profane and grieving, The Apophatic Man is a novel about the selves we borrow and the truths we are spared.
Translated from the Romanian by the author, with the assistance of AI tools.
Formats
- Kindle ebook: pre-order now, release 10 November 2026.
- Paperback: 6 x 9 in, 748 pages, coming soon.
Buy
- Kindle ebook (pre-order): Amazon
- Paperback: coming soon on Amazon.
The Whole Package
One story, three forms: a novel, a stage play and a television series.
Novel
The Apophatic Man. Volume I of a two-volume novel. Kindle pre-order, release 10 November 2026.
Play
The Only Reader. A black comedy in one act and three movements. Everyone has an opinion about the book. One man has read it.
About the Author
Marius Tianu is a Romanian writer and creative director. He studied philosophy at the University of Bucharest and political science at SNSPA, worked for a time as a political consultant, and translated Leibniz and Descartes from French into Romanian.
For more than twenty years he has worked in advertising, at agencies including Saatchi & Saatchi, JWT, Graffiti BBDO, MullenLowe and Cheil. He is now Regional Creative Director of dentsu Creative Southeast Europe. His work has been recognized at Cannes Lions, where it won gold, and by the Clio Awards, the London International Awards, the New York Festivals and Eurobest.
He created The Euxine Event, a limited television series about a catastrophe in the Black Sea, and is at work on A Short Treatise on Psalmic Ontology. The Apophatic Man took him ten years to write.
