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Born 1956-06-01
Also known as Mircea Cartarescu
Mircea Cărtărescu (n. 1 iunie 1956, București, România) este un poet, prozator, eseist, critic literar și jurnalist român. Profesor la Universitatea din București, este unul dintre cei mai premiați și traduși scriitori români ai perioadei postcomuniste, reprezentant notabil al postmodernismului românesc, publicând peste 30 de volume, traduse în 23 de limbi. Numele său a fost frecvent menționat pentru nominalizare la Premiul Nobel pentru literatură, fiind propus oficial, de două ori, de către Uniunea Scriitorilor din România. Este cunoscut mai ales pentru trilogia sa ambițioasă Orbitor (scrisă pe parcursul a mai bine de doisprezece ani), cartea sa de nuvele De ce iubim femeile, sau romanul Solenoid.
Mircea Cărtărescu (born 1 June 1956, Bucharest, Romania) is a Romanian poet, prose writer, essayist, literary critic and journalist. A professor at the University of Bucharest, he is one of the most awarded and translated Romanian writers of the post-communist period, a notable representative of Romanian postmodernism, publishing over 30 volumes, translated into 23 languages. His name has been frequently mentioned for nomination for the Nobel Prize in Literature, being officially proposed twice by the Romanian Writers' Union. He is best known for his ambitious trilogy Orbitor ("Glaring," written over a period of more than twelve years), his collection of short stories De ce iubim fatilei ("Why We Love Women"), or the novel Solenoid.
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Intro While maybe overlong and meandering at many points, this book is a challenging exploration of the trauma of scale. By that I mean, the traumatic experience of being a Subject in a world improbably bigger than one’s self. Life abounds with promises and a…