What do we mean when we say time passes? How do contingency and anachronism and other philosophical concepts bearing on time affect the more (seemingly) concrete realities of our political and cultural lives? In ways small and great, personal and cultural, we all experience the mutability of time. We feel it expand and contract, speed up and slow down, as it bends to the impera...(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)

'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)

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)

Elaborates a dialectics of modernity, eternity and tradition.