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Nostalgia

Nostalgia

Short Stories

by Mircea Cartarescu
Paperback
Publication Date: 25/10/2005

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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.
ISBN:
9780811215886
9780811215886
Category:
Miscellaneous items
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
25-10-2005
Language:
English
Publisher:
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
361
Dimensions (mm):
231x155x23mm
Weight:
0.41kg
Mircea Cartarescu

Mircea Cartarescu is a writer, professor, and journalist who has published more than twenty-five books. His work has received the Formentor Prize (2018), the Thomas Mann Prize (2018), the Austrian State Prize for Literature (2015), and the Vilenica Prize (2011), among many others.

His work has been translated in twenty-three languages. His novel Blinding was published by Archipelago in Sean Cotter's English translation.

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