"Mr. K Released is a delightfully absurd, surreal novel about the disorienting qualities of freedom. . . . an engrossing novel of ideas that is entertaining and challenging in its strangeness."
— Foreword Reviews
"Both amusing and alienating, the variation on a theme that is Mr. K Released naturally raises questions for the contemporary reader in an increasingly troubled world, where the illusory nature of human liberty increasingly shows itself not to be a thing of the past."
— World Literature Today
"Longlisted"
— EBRD Literature Prize 2021
"Part parable of human fallibility, part allegorical critique of political systems at which we fail and which fail us, Mr. K Released draws on the chaotic transition from totalitarianism to democracy that Romania, Matéi Visniec’s homeland. . . experienced after the collapse of communism in the late 1980s."
— Reading in Translation
"This portrait of a man tormented by doubt, weighed down by the burden of responsibility, is both touching and funny... a sharp and empathetic dissection of life's dilemmas."
— European Literature Network
"Matei Vişniec’s prolific dramatic work is steeped in Kafka’s enigmatic, surreal and absurd universe."
— The AALITRA Review