The astonishing debut in English of one of Romania's foremost
writers.
Mircea Cartarescu, born in 1956, is one of Romania's leading
novelists and poets. This translation of his 1989 novel
"Nostalgia," writes Andrei Codrescu, "introduces to English a
writer who has always had a place reserved for him in a
constellation that includes the Brothers Grimm, Franz Kafka, Jorge
Luis Borges, Bruno Schulz, Julio Cortazar, Gabriel Garcia Marquez,
Milan Kundera, and Milorad Pavic, to mention just a few." Like most
of his literary contemporaries of the avant-garde Eighties
Generation, his major work has been translated into several
European languages, with the notable exception, until now, of
English.
Readers opening the pages of "Nostalgia" should brace themselves
for a verbal tidal wave of the imagination that will wash away
previous ideas of what a novel is or ought to be. Although each of
its five chapters is separate and stands alone, a thematic, even
mesmeric harmony finds itself in children's games, the music of the
spheres, humankind's primordial myth-making, the origins of the
universe, and in the dilapidated tenement blocks of an apocalyptic
Bucharest during the years of communist dictatorship.
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