Being Phlegmed Seen as Normality Adrian Gabriel Dumitru Returns with a Bold and Poetic Exploration of Emotional Duality and the Paradox of Love
Bucharest, Romania, 17th Oct 2025 – Acclaimed Romanian author Adrian Gabriel Dumitru continues his profound journey through the landscapes of emotion and illusion with his latest work, Being Phlegmed Seen as Normality: Essays About Duality. Now available on Amazon, Apple Books, and Google Play Books, this poetic collection dissects the fragile tension between love and suffering, revealing how illusion often disguises itself as emotional truth.
The Search for Meaning in the Chaos of Connection
In Being Phlegmed Seen as Normality, Dumitru builds upon his fascination with duality, particularly the intricate relationship between man and woman. Through essays written in a rhythm that feels both philosophical and poetic, he exposes the contradictions that govern intimacy—how tenderness and cruelty, illusion and clarity, coexist within the same emotional frame.
“I try to understand the woman,” Dumitru writes, “but realistically, somehow, I understand there’s nothing to understand.”
This admission becomes the heartbeat of the collection. Dumitru’s narrative is not one of resolution but of confrontation. He challenges the reader to face the truth that much of what we call love is shaped by imagination and driven by illusion. Yet, through this acceptance of confusion, the author finds a strange peace—a sense that imperfection itself might be the most authentic form of connection.
When Pain Becomes the Norm
The title, Being Phlegmed Seen as Normality, captures the irony at the core of Dumitru’s reflection. He observes how emotional detachment, rejection, and even humiliation can become accepted as normal in the modern pursuit of love. The essays depict relationships as theater—a recurring performance of passion and pain—where the boundaries between real affection and toxic fascination blur until they are indistinguishable.
Dumitru writes with raw honesty about his own entrapment in the illusion of romance. He describes love as “a prison with invisible walls,” a stage where one keeps acting despite knowing that the play is built on suffering. The confessions within these pages are not bitter; they are deeply human. They reveal how even when confronted with emotional torment, the soul continues to seek meaning, beauty, and validation.
A Literary Mirror of Duality
Known for transforming introspection into philosophy, Adrian Gabriel Dumitru uses his signature minimalist, fragmented style to illustrate the duality that defines existence. His sentences, often broken by ellipses and pauses, echo the rhythm of thought—the way the mind hesitates between knowing and feeling.
Duality, he suggests, is not only a concept but a curse. “It’s the spell,” he writes, “the illusion itself.” Yet, there is grace in that curse. Dumitru’s prose captures the poetry of contradiction: how hope survives in despair, how longing persists after loss, and how love remains irresistible even when it becomes self-destructive.
Each essay stands as both confession and meditation, inviting readers to see themselves in the mirror of his vulnerability. Through that mirror, Dumitru gives voice to the universal struggle of balancing idealism with reality, emotion with logic, and beauty with chaos.
The Author’s Expanding Universe
With this latest release, Dumitru continues to define a literary space that is at once philosophical, psychological, and lyrical. His essays transcend cultural and linguistic borders, speaking directly to anyone who has ever felt torn between love’s ecstasy and its agony.
Being Phlegmed Seen as Normality reinforces Dumitru’s place as a writer who dares to document the unfiltered truth of human emotion—without pretense, without resolution, and without apology.
The book is now available for readers worldwide on Amazon, Apple Books, and Google Play Books, offering a journey through the paradoxes that shape every heart seeking meaning in a world that normalizes emotional pain.
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Company Details
Organization: Dezibel Media
Contact Person: Adrian Gabriel Dumitru
Website: https://dezibelmedia.ro
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City: Bucharest
Country: Romania
Release Id: 17102535554