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Original Title:	Visul
ISBN:	0811215881 (ISBN13: 9780811215886)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Premio letterario Giuseppe Acerbi (2005), The Romanian Academy Prize (1989)

Nostalgia

Mircea Cărtărescu

Paperback | Pages: 361 pages

Rating: 4.29 | 1845 Users | 120 Reviews

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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." Like most of his literary contemporaries of the avant-garde Eighties Generation, his major work has been translated into several European languages, with the notable exception, until now, of English.



Readers opening the pages of Nostalgia should brace themselves for a verbal tidal wave of the imagination that will wash away previous ideas of what a novel is or ought to be. Although each of its five chapters is separate and stands alone, a thematic, even mesmeric harmony finds itself in children's games, the music of the spheres, humankind's primordial myth-making, the origins of the universe, and in the dilapidated tenement blocks of an apocalyptic Bucharest during the years of communist dictatorship.

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Title	:	Nostalgia
Author	:	Mircea Cărtărescu
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 361 pages
Published	:	November 17th 2005 by New Directions (first published 1989)
Categories	:	Fiction. European Literature. Romanian Literature. Cultural. Romania. Short Stories. Novels

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Descriptive and evocative, mysterious, haunting, "as if it was written by a psychedelic Proust", but also incredibly charming; perhaps a dive into the most remarkable paper-world known by contemporary Postmodernism.

Now THAT is more fucking like it than the so-so Travesti (and not just because it turns out that Travesti is essentially a remix of one of the stories in Nostalgia). Funny, devastating, creepy, the storyteller trapped as God within his own story. Damn, I'm going to have to read the diaries too, aren't I?

A surreal trip through socialist, apartment-block Bucharest, largely through the eyes of children or teens who experience the fantastic or even meta-realities with precisely the same mix of curiosity and grievance as the everyday. The "novel" is five essentially unconnected stories -- the history of the greatest Russian Roulette player of all time; the coming of a charismatic messiah-child to an apartment block; a surreally obsessive love story between teens; the recounted tale of a girl's

This is not a novel, but a collection of five huge stories, united by voice and themes. The first and last stories are linear tales, perfect bookends to the middle three, which leap forward and backward in time as well as POV. Not an easy book to get through, but infinitely rewarding to fans of philosophical writers (Kafka), labyrinthian architects (Borges), and insanely imaginative creators (Bolano et al). Brilliant book.

I think this is the first time I read a book of this style, and from this trend so related to the dream land and the conception of the fantasies and dreams not as something apart or unreal but as a part of our own reality and true being. this is the main reason why I am sure I have not understood 100% of all the short stories reunited in this book, but have quite enjoyed them anyway. my two favorites were "the roulette player" and "rem", but what I have loved most from this reading is, without



Stunning. One of the contemporary Romanian greats, criminally under-translated in English. Some of the most vivid, haunting, creative imagery I've ever encountered in a novel.