Mircea Cărtărescu Livres

"From Mircea Cărtărescu, author of Blinding: an existence (and eventually a cosmos) created by forking paths. Based on Cărtărescu's own experience as a high school teacher, Solenoid begins with the mundane details of a diarist's life and quickly spirals into a philosophical account of existence, history, philosophy, and mathematics. 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 Communist Romania in the late 1970s and early 1980s , 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 minuscule world of dust mites living on a microscope slide. Combining history with fiction- the scientists Nicola 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"--

Part visceral dream-memoir, part fictive journey through a hallucinatory Bucharest, Mircea Cărtărescu’s Blinding was one of the most widely heralded literary sensations in contemporary Romania, and a bestseller from the day of its release. Riddled with hidden passageways, mesmerizing tapestries, and whispering butterflies, Blinding takes us on a mystical trip into the protagonist’s childhood, his memories of hospitalization as a teenager, the prehistory of his family, a traveling circus, Secret police, zombie armies, American fighter pilots, the underground jazz scene of New Orleans, and the installation of the communist regime. This kaleidoscopic world is both eerily familiar and profoundly new. Readers of Blinding will emerge from this strange pilgrimage shaken, and entirely transformed.

"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.'"--Description from Amazon.com

Als die Schreibstube des Erzählers dem städtebaulichen Größenwahn des Diktators zum Opfer fällt, kehrt Mircea in die Wohnung der Eltern zurück. Dort wird die Vergangenheit wieder lebendig – und Bukarest zur Literatur: wenn er den Urgroßvater Vasile herbeihalluziniert, dem im nächtlichen Schwitzbad der Himmel zur Hölle wird, oder davon erzählt, wie sich Urgroßmutter Maria allmorgendlich in einen Schmetterling verwandelt. In diesem irrwitzigen Roman fügen sich Phantastik und Physik, Tradition und Moderne, Sinnlichkeit und Abstraktion zu einem literarischen Meisterwerk – Weltliteratur!

„Es war das Jahr des Herrn 1989. Die Menschen hörten von Kriegen und von Aufständen, doch sie ängstigten sich nicht, denn das alles musste sich ereignen.“ So beginnt der Roman „Die Flügel“ des Autors Cartarescu aus Rumänien, das Finale der „Orbitor“-Trilogie. Hintergrund bildet die Wandlung der Gesellschaft während der Revolution in Bukarest. Auf den Straßen spielen sich tumultartige Szenen ab, in der Wohnung des Ich-Erzählers läuft tagein, tagaus der Fernseher, und er taucht ein in die Geschichten seiner Vorfahren. So entsteht ein Kaleidoskop von Bewusstseinssplittern – und eines der großartigsten, exzessivsten Werke der Weltliteratur.

Zbierka poviedok od rumunského autora ponúka nevšedný opis detstva. Detstvo a deti, zachytené v rôznych vývinových fázach spája jeden spoločný a podstatný znak: absencia či rozostrenie, nedôležitosť dospelých. Práve perspektíva dieťaťa na túto zo spoločenského uhla, povedzme, hororovú východiskovú situáciu vytvára príbehy neobyčajnej, hesseovsky či andersenovsky ponurej rozprávkovej, no najmä surrealistickej atmosféry. Kniha vyjde v preklade Evy Kenderessy.

„ Travesti este un studiu de caz despre un copil hermafrodit, dar şi o explorare a întunecatei sexualităţi adolescentine. Mai presus de orice, însă, acest mic roman, care m-a obsedat şi m-a chinuit mai mult decât orice altă carte a mea, e anabasis -ul meu, drumul meu ascuns şi întortochiat către centrul adânc îngropat al fiinţei mele. Travesti este şi portalul către Orbitor . Trilogia mea n-ar fi putut exista fără exerciţiul de sinceritate aproape sinucigaşă de aici. Nu e uşor să afli cine eşti, nici să te priveşti în ochi după ce ai aflat. Şi, în orice caz, nu vei mai fi niciodată acelaşi. O dată cu Travesti , cântecele inocenţei – etapa mea euforică, a poemelor, a Nostalgiei şi a Levantului – au amuţit, lăsând locul unor tot mai imposibile şi mai nemulţumite de sine cântece ale experienţei. În fine, Travesti este descrierea ororii de a fi singur, autoportretul meu în cea mai nefericită perioadă a vieţii mele. Cartea asta mă urmăreşte şi azi şi consună ciudat cu ceea ce scriu acum, la un sfert de secol după terminarea ei.“ (Mircea CĂRTĂRESCU)