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Orbitor
Series · 4 books · 1996-2007

Books in series

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Blinding

1996

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 jazz underworld 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 its strange pilgrimage shaken, and entirely transformed.
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Abbacinante

Il corpo

2002

Secondo capitolo della trilogia a forma di farfalla cominciata con Abbacinante. L’ala sinistra (Voland 2007) che con l’ultimo capitolo si è aggiudicata il premio letterario “libro del 2007” in Romania, Abbacinante. Il corpo racconta la storia di Vasile, bambino senza ombra che diventa capitano dei pompieri nella pittoresca Bucarest del XIX seccolo. Poi, nel pieno dell’incubo della Romania degli anni ’50-’60, si passa all’infanzia del narratore stesso dove il sogno riplasma una realtà ormai mostruosa. Bucarest si illumina e si fa letteratura quando il bisnonno Vasile vive le sue allucinazioni o quando la bisnonna Maria si trasforma ogni mattina in una farfalla. Libro fondamentale dell’opera di Cărtărescu, Abbacinante. Il corpo è un prisma poetico e fantastico che cattura la storia della Romania in una serie di folgoranti apparizioni. Romanzo folle e ricco di incubi dove tradizione e modernità, sensualità e astrazione si fondono per creare un’opera d’arte.
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Die Flügel

Roman

2007

"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.
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Orbitor

2007

„Orbitor” este o trilogie scrisă de Mircea Cărtărescu. Lucrarea constă în trei volume: „Aripa stângă” publicat în 1996, „Corpul” publicat în 2002 și „Aripa dreaptă” publicat în 2007.

Author

Mircea Cartarescu
Mircea Cartarescu
Author · 26 books

Romanian poet, novelist, essayist and a professor at the University of Bucharest. Born in Bucharest, he graduated from the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Letters, Department of Romanian Language And Literature, in 1980. Between 1980 and 1989 he worked as a Romanian language teacher, and then he worked at the Writers Union and as an editor at the Caiete Critice magazine. In 1991 he became a lecturer at the Chair of Romanian Literary History, part of the University of Bucharest Faculty of Letters. As of 2010, he is an associate professor. Between 1994-1995 he was a visiting lecturer at the University of Amsterdam. Among his writings: "Nostalgia" (a full edition of the earlier published "Visul"), 1993, "Travesti" 1994, "Orbitor" 2001, "Enciclopedia zmeilor" ("The Encyclopedia of Dragons") 2002, "Pururi tânãr, înfãsurat în pixeli" ("Forever young, convolved in pixels") 2002, "De ce iubim femeile" bestseller ("Why do we love women") 2004.

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