Cartarescu solenoide5/25/2023 ![]() ![]() "Romania's greatest living writer." - Andrew Solomon, The New Yorker Readers of Blinding will emerge from this strange pilgrimage shaken, and entirely transformed. ![]() This kaleidoscopic world is both eerily familiar and profoundly new. 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. 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. ![]()
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