Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Mircea Cartarescu (Author)Mircea Cartarescu (b. 1956) is Romania’s most celebrated writer. His books, including Theodoros, Solenoid, the trilogy Blinding, and Nostalgia have been translated into over twenty languages. Solenoid was longlisted for the International Booker Prize and he has received many awards, including the Dublin Literary Award and the Thomas Mann Prize.
Sean Cotter (Translator)
Sean Cotter is Professor of Literature and Translation Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. He has received the Best Translated Book Award for Poetry and multiple grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Visionary, surreal, exhilarating... Almost as if David Lynch had dramatised the prophetic books of William Blake
- Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times
Nobody better probes the disconcerting vulnerability of our existence, always, ultimately, alone; looking on a bewildering world that refuses to console us, and no writer does it with such creative intelligence. The next two volumes can't arrive soon enough
Irish Times
This is writing of overwhelming accomplishment... Reading <i>Blinding </i>is like sinking into the humus of a mind, a vast, tangled network of memory and fantasy
- Chris Power, Observer
Vivid, sumptuous... a rich, disturbing exploration of our sense of time
TLS
Mircea Cartarescu’s writing is dreamlike in the truest sense... It is an effluence – prose at times decadently grim and at others shimmering and ethereal – that this reader, like a dog, couldn't help but lap up
ArtReview
A wild history of Bucharest in the 20th century... <i>Blinding </i>reawakens the perceptual imagination and gifts us new insight
Literary Review
Cartarescu is no longer writing novels. He is officiating a cult
TLS
One of the greatest literary adventurers in contemporary literature
El Pais
Gripping, impassioned, unexpected--the qualities that the best in literature possesses
Los Angeles Times Book Review
Cartarescu is one of the great literary voices of Central Europe. He daringly questions our usual way of looking at the world, suggesting that rationalism is merely an attempt to create order. In fact, the world is made up of the nuances of our fantasies
- Olga Tokarczuk,
'Visionary... almost as if David Lynch had dramatised the prophetic books of William Blake' Boyd Tonkin, Financial Times
'This is writing of overwhelming accomplishment' Chris Power, Observer
An enthralling, hallucinatory masterwork by one of Central Europe’s most celebrated novelists
‘We exist between the past and future like the vermiform body of a butterfly, in between its two wings’
Beneath the streets of communist Bucharest linger hidden passageways, lost to memory. Here, sprawling hospitals give way to travelling circuses and underground jazz clubs, and Cartarescu’s childhood, prehistory and visionary fever dreams are woven into the landscape of the city, haunted by secret police and zombie hoards.
Part visceral dream-memoir, part phantasmic pilgrimage, Mircea Cartarescu’s Blinding is one of the most widely heralded literary sensations in contemporary Romania, and a fascinating, kaleidoscopic journey into the past.
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Mircea Cartarescu (Author)Mircea Cartarescu (b. 1956) is Romania’s most celebrated writer. His books, including Theodoros, Solenoid, the trilogy Blinding, and Nostalgia have been translated into over twenty languages. Solenoid was longlisted for the International Booker Prize and he has received many awards, including the Dublin Literary Award and the Thomas Mann Prize.
Sean Cotter (Translator)
Sean Cotter is Professor of Literature and Translation Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. He has received the Best Translated Book Award for Poetry and multiple grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.