Name: Nostalgia (in English)
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Author: Mircea Cartarescu
ISBN: 9780811215886

Type

Physical Book

Author

Mircea Cartarescu

Publisher

New Directions

Year

2005

Language

English

Pages

361

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22 x 15 cm

Weight

ISBN

0811215881

ISBN13

9780811215886

Synopsis "Nostalgia (in English)"

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.

Mircea Cartarescu

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Poeta, narrador y ensayista. Doctor en Literatura Rumana por la Facultad de Letras de la Universidad de Bucarest. Está considerado el más importante escritor rumano de la actualidad. Fue galardonado con el prestigioso Premio Formentor de las Letras, y ha obtenido galardones de la importancia del Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding, el Premio Gregor von Rezzori, el Premio Thomas Mann, el Premio del Estado Austriaco a la Literatura Europea y el Premio FIL de Literatura y Lenguas Romances. Sus textos han sido vertidos a más de una decena de idiomas.

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