About Mircea Cartarescu
Mircea C?rt?rescu, born June 1, 1956 in Bucharest, is a Romanian poet, novelist, and essayist from Bucharest. Growing up during Romania's communist regime, becoming a literary critic and theorist, he is a prominent representative of the 1980's generation. He is also a professor of poetry, and of medieval and postmodern literature. C?rt?rescu's writing career began in 1978 and he has since become Romania's preeminent postmodern poet. Two of his books of prose, Nostalgia and Blinding (Orbitor), have been translated into English.He began publishing poems in the magazine România Literar? in 1978. C?rt?rescu was initially a poet, but it was through his novels that he became known to the general public. Bucharest is omnipresent in his work, to the point of becoming a character in its own right. In an interview with journalist Mirel Bran, the writer declared: “For me, Bucharest resembles a Balkan boyar with its mixture of generosity, tenderness and hysteria. After our love story, today I am disappointed. A cold wind blows between me and Bucharest.”
His book "Why We Love Women" brought him success. He then declares that it is no longer a book and that it has joined the domain of social phantasmagoria. Orbitor is a novel in three parts, Orbitor, The Eye on Fire and The Tattooed Wing, which constitutes one of the major works of Mircea C?rt?rescu.
We can summarize the universe of Mircea C?rt?rescu in these terms: "emerging from the abysses of the unconscious, childhood memories, erotic dreams and cosmic visions are for the poet so many instruments of investigation intended to force the limits of the rational knowledge and to initiate the self into the secrets of the world”. The writer Gheorghe Cr?ciun considers that “with Mircea C?rt?rescu the novelty in the look is obvious. The body is represented as a living, mechanical machinery which produces hallucinations and fantasies, which often establishes itself as the tutelary presence of all possible visions of objects, material entities, imaginary acts, etc. ".
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