![]() ![]() It flashes back to the narrator's mother's family, the Badislavs, a Romanized family of Bulgarians who relocate to Romania in the 1850s. But the novel isn't all that grounded in time and while it's definitely centred in Bucharest, it isn't entirely grounded in place, either. The narrator of the novel is named Mircea and lives in Bucharest the parents of the novel-Mircea met in 1955 the actual-life-Mircea was born in 1956, in Bucharest. The trilogy was completed in Romanian in 2007, the rest hasn't yet appeared in English. This came out in Romanian in 1996, and was translated into English by Sean Cotter for Archipelago Books in 2013. ![]() He seems to be an important Romanian poet and novelist, but one ill-served in English, probably unsurprisingly. Blinding: The Left Wing is the first novel of a trilogy by Mircea Cărtărescu. ![]()
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