The astonishing debut in English of one of Romania's foremost writers. 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 Bo...(展开全部)

'Gripping, impassioned, unexpected' Los Angeles Times 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 increasingly death-defying games of Russian Roulette, a child messiah works his magic in the tenements, a young man explores gender boundaries, a woman relives her youth and an a...(展开全部)

Mircea Cartarescu was born in Bucharest in 1956. His novels and poetry are widely considered to be the best writing to emerge from post-communist Romania. His books have been translated into fourteen languages and he has received many awards, including most recently the Thomas Mann Prize and the Prix Formentor. Julian Semilian is a translator, poet and filmmaker. He currently t...(展开全部)

N-am mai scris niciodata povestiri asemenea celor din Nostalgia, caci ele nu pot fi pastisate, continuate sau dezvoltate. Dupa Arhitectul m-am oprit pentru ca nu mai era nimic de spus. Nici n-am mai citit din aceasta carte, am ramas doar cu vaga, dar magica ei amintire. Mi-au ramas jocul fetitelor din REM, stiloul ambiguu din Mendebilul, muzeul Antipa din Gemenii, micul ras de ...(展开全部)

The astonishing debut in English of one of Romania's foremost writers. 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 Bo...(展开全部)

'Gripping, impassioned, unexpected' Los Angeles Times 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 increasingly death-defying games of Russian Roulette, a child messiah works his magic in the tenements, a young man explores gender boundaries, a woman relives her youth and an a...(展开全部)

Mircea Cartarescu was born in Bucharest in 1956. His novels and poetry are widely considered to be the best writing to emerge from post-communist Romania. His books have been translated into fourteen languages and he has received many awards, including most recently the Thomas Mann Prize and the Prix Formentor. Julian Semilian is a translator, poet and filmmaker. He currently t...(展开全部)

N-am mai scris niciodata povestiri asemenea celor din Nostalgia, caci ele nu pot fi pastisate, continuate sau dezvoltate. Dupa Arhitectul m-am oprit pentru ca nu mai era nimic de spus. Nici n-am mai citit din aceasta carte, am ramas doar cu vaga, dar magica ei amintire. Mi-au ramas jocul fetitelor din REM, stiloul ambiguu din Mendebilul, muzeul Antipa din Gemenii, micul ras de ...(展开全部)

Combining personal memoir, philosophical essay, and historical analysis, Svetlana Boym explores the spaces of collective nostalgia that connect national biography and personal self-fashioning in the twenty-first century. She guides us through the ruins and construction sites of post-communist cities–St. Petersburg, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague–and the imagined homelands of exiles...(展开全部)

Nostalgia has a bad reputation. Its critics dismiss it as mere sentimentality or, worse, a dangerous yearning for an imagined age of purity. And nostalgia is routinely blamed for trivializing the past and obscuring its ugly sides. In Yesterday, Tobias Becker offers a more nuanced and sympathetic view. Surveying the successive waves of nostalgia that swept the United States and ...(展开全部)