Blinding by Mircea Cartarescu,Sean Cotter

By Mircea Cartarescu,Sean Cotter

half visceral dream-memoir, half fictive trip via a hallucinatory Bucharest, Mircea Cărtărescu’s Blinding was the most greatly heralded literary sensations in modern Romania, and a bestseller from the day of its liberate. Riddled with hidden passageways, enthralling tapestries, and whispering butterflies, Blinding takes us on a paranormal journey into the protagonist’s formative years, his thoughts of hospitalization as undefined, the prehistory of his kinfolk, a touring circus, mystery police, zombie armies, American fighter pilots, the underground jazz scene of latest Orleans, and the install of the communist regime. This kaleidoscopic international is either eerily popular and profoundly new. Readers of Blinding will emerge from this unusual pilgrimage shaken, and completely transformed.

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