The English language translation by Julian Semilian first appeared in the United States in 2005, from the independent publisher New Directions. First published in Romanian in 1989, his debut prose collection is filled with enthralling, magical realist (or, as some call them, “magical unrealist”) short stories, and is already in its 11th edition at home.
Last month, Cărtărescu’s Nostalgia was issued as part of the Penguin’s Modern Classics series. Most of the country’s readers will have at some point picked up one of his works, whether that’s his 80s playful, postmodern poems that get taught in schools, or his ambitious novels Solenoid, or The Blinding.Įnglish-language readers, however, have only just started to discover the writer on a wider scale. Mircea Cărtărescu is Romania’s best-known contemporary author.
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