Blinding: Volume 1

Blinding: Volume 1

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 underground jazz scene 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 this strange pilgrimage shaken, and entirely transformed.
Author: Cărtărescu Mircea
ISBN: 9781935744856
Year of publication: 1996
Collection: Orbitor
Genre: Modern prose
Number of pages: 468
Reading time: 7 h. 48 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
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