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Nostalgia - Short Stories (Paperback)
Mircea Cartarescu; Translated by Julian Semilian; Introduction by Andrei Codrescu
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R628
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Discovery Miles 5 240
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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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Solenoid (Paperback)
Mircea Cartarescu; Translated by Sean Cotter
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R685
R626
Discovery Miles 6 260
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by the New
Yorker, Publishers Weekly, The Financial
Times, Words Without Borders A highly-acclaimed master work
of fiction from Cărtărescu, author of Blinding: an existence (and
eventually a cosmos) created by forking paths. Based on
Cărtărescu's own role as a high school teacher, Solenoid begins
with the mundane details of a diarist's life and quickly spirals
into a philosophical account of life, history, philosophy, and
mathematics. One character asks another: when you rush into the
burning building, will you save the newborn or the artwork? On a
broad scale, the novel’s investigations of other universes,
dimensions, and timelines reconcile the realms of life and art. The
novel is grounded in the reality of late 1970s/early 1980s
Communist Romania, including long lines for groceries, the
absurdities of the education system, and the misery of family life.
The text includes sequences in a tuberculosis sanatorium, an
encounter with an anti-death protest movement, a society of dream
investigators, and an extended visit to the miniscule world of dust
mites living on a microscope slide. Combining fiction with
autobiography and history— the scientists Nicolae Tesla and
George Boole, for example, appear alongside the Voynich
manuscript—Solenoid ruminates on the exchanges possible between
the alternate dimensions of life and art, as various, monstrous
dimensions erupt within the Communist present.
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Nostalgia (Paperback)
Mircea Cartarescu; Translated by Julian Semilian
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R314
R257
Discovery Miles 2 570
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'Cartarescu is one of the great literary voices of Central Europe'
Olga Tokarczuk, Nobel Prize winner and author of Flights 'A
Danubian Narnia. . . his writing delivers a rainbow-hued riot of
fantasy, imagination and invention' Boyd Tonkin, Spectator A
dreamlike novel of memory and magic, Nostalgia turns the dark world
of Communist Bucharest into a place of strange enchantments. Here a
man plays increasingly death-defying games of Russian Roulette, a
child messiah works his magic in the tenements, a young man
explores gender boundaries, a woman relives her youth and an
architect becomes obsessed with the sound of his new car horn -
with unexpected consequences. Blending reality and symbolism, time
and myth, this is a cult masterwork from Romania's most celebrated
writer.
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Lulu (Spanish, Paperback)
Mircea Cartarescu; Translated by Marian Ochoa De Eribe; Introduction by Carlos Pardo
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R614
Discovery Miles 6 140
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Banned for years in Romania, this brilliant narrative of European
literature tells the unlikely story of an unlucky man who,
surprisingly, makes a fortune in deadly sessions of Russian
roulette. Feverish crowds get in line to participate in the
ceremonies of death and redemption that give way to mass hysteria.
This novel attempts to explain how a dull man ends up as someone
seemingly immortal and impregnable when, in fact, he only breeds
the desperate spirit of self-destruction. "Prohibido durante anos
en Rumania, este relato brillante de la literatura europea cuenta
la historia poco probable de un hombre de mala suerte que,
sorprendentemente, gana una fortuna en sesiones mortales de la
ruleta rusa. Multitudes febriles se ponen en fila para participar
en las ceremonias de muerte y redencion que ceden a la histeria
colectiva. Esta novela trata de explicar como un hombre aburrido
termina siendo una persona aparentemente ""inmortal e invulnerable
cuando, en realidad, solo engendra el espiritu desesperado de la
autodestruccion."
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