mircea cartarescu

Al jarenlang wordt de Roemeense auteur Mircea Cartarescu gezien als de grootste schrijver van Oost-Europa. Met Solenoïde heeft hij zijn magnum opus ge

A dreamlike novel of memory and magic, Nostalgia turns the dark world of Communist Bucharest into a place of strange enchantments. Here a man plays in

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by the New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, The Financial Times, Words Without BordersA highly-acclaimed master work of

Mircea Cartarescu, born in 1956, is one of Romania's leading novelists and poets. This translation of his 1989 novel Nostalgia, writes Andrei Codrescu

Based on Cartarescu's own experience as a secondary school teacher, Solenoid begins with the mundane details of a diarist's life and quickly spirals i

Al jarenlang wordt de Roemeense auteur Mircea Cartarescu gezien als de grootste schrijver van Oost-Europa. Met <i>Solenoïde</i> heeft hij

This major work is distinguished by an intensity of inspiration and an overwhelming sense of personal vision. In his lifelong quest to understand the

Demonstrates universal religious experience and shows how humanity's effort to live within a sacred sphere has manifested itself in myriad cultures fr

So speaks a character in Two Strange Tales, a pair of novellas in which Westerners are caught up in the uncanny realm of Eastern religion and magic. I

First published in English in 1954, this founding work of the history of religions secured the North American reputation of the Romanian émigré-schola

In a beautifully illustrated, large print guide to collectible jade carvings through the ages (particularly from Chinese dynasties), a longtime collec

The reeducation practices of communist Romania ended in 1951 with the transfer of political prisoners from Pitesti to the Danube-Black Sea Canal labor