LITERARY FICTION / CONTEMPORARY FICTION

Blinding: The Left Wing

Mircea Cărtărescu

Translated by Sean Cotter

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award 2014

An enthralling, hallucinatory masterwork by one of Central Europe’s most celebrated novelists.

‘We exist between the past and future like the vermiform body of a butterfly, in between its two wings’

Beneath the streets of communist Bucharest linger hidden passageways, lost to memory. Here, sprawling hospitals give way to travelling circuses and underground jazz clubs, and Cartarescu’s childhood, prehistory and visionary fever dreams are woven into the landscape of the city, haunted by secret police and zombie hoards.

Part visceral dream-memoir, part phantasmic pilgrimage, Mircea Cartarescu’s Blinding is one of the most widely heralded literary sensations in contemporary Romania, and a fascinating, kaleidoscopic journey into the past.

DETAILS

Original language
Romanian
Translated by
Sean Cotter
First published
1996
Collections
Books in Translation
Format
Paperback
This edition
November 2025
Pages
432
ISBN
9780241754894
Language
English