Nostalgia - format ePub

Quattro storie si incrociano in un sottile gioco di echi e attraverso la sovrapposizione di tempi e di spazi tendono all’apoteosi finale. Gli sviluppi della rivoluzione romena del 1989 – con la rievocazione...

Nel pieno incubo della Romania degli anni ’50-’60, la storia di Vasile – il bambino senza ombra nella pittoresca Bucarest del XIX secolo – si fonde e si congiunge, come in un nastro di Möbius, con quella...

Theodoros è la saga epica di un uomo che ha sfidato se stesso e Dio in nome del suo destino: comandare o morire. Il romanzo di un antieroe che, per vivere all'altezza delle proprie ambizioni, si costringe...

Dentro una strana casa a forma di barca uno scrittore fallito consuma la vita creando pianeti nella propria testa, annotando sogni e incubi su un diario folle, vagando con la mente per una Bucarest allucinata,...

Considerada unánimemente por la crítica la obra cumbre de Mircea Cărtărescu hasta el momento, Solenoide es una novela monumental en la que resuenan ecos de Pynchon, Borges, Swift y Kafka. Estamos ante...

"Nostalgia", la obra que consagró a Mircea Cărtărescu como la voz más potente de las actuales letras rumanas, constituye una auténtica revolución literaria. Un tour de force narrativo sorprendente, afrodisíaco,...

Bucarest a mediados de los sesenta. Rumanía es un país gris, dominado por el Partido. Pero, para el joven Mircea, que tiene ocho años, la realidad es prodigiosa y adopta la forma de una involuntaria comedia....

"N-am mai scris niciodată povestiri asemenea celor din Nostalgia, căci ele nu pot fi pastişate, continuate sau dezvoltate. După Arhitectul m-am oprit pentru că nu mai era nimic de spus. Nici n-am mai...

"Travesti este un studiu de caz despre un copil hermafrodit, dar şi o explorare a întunecatei sexualităţi adolescentine. Mai presus de orice, însă, acest mic roman, care m-a obsedat şi m-a chinuit mai...

"Preotul mi-a tăiat moțul, iar nașul mi-a vârât sub ochi tăvița tradițională, pe care se-nșirau câteva obiecte disparate: un păhăruț cu vin, un clește, niște bani, o păpușică cu păr de ață, spice de grâu…...

"Primul meu gând, odată-ncheiată lectura, a fost să-mi scriu pe cartea de vizită «Eu am citit Solenoid». E un eveniment care-ți taie oarecum viața în două: cine va citi cartea va înceta să mai fie un...

"Ajunse la rond, unde îl aștepta Vasile Singurătate. Coborâse de pe soclul său și levita la o palmă deasupra aleii. În dreptul frunţii, al coastelor și-n josul pântecului piatra lui nobilă era spartă....

El ala izquierda es el volumen que abre «Cegador», la monumental trilogía en forma de mariposa considerada de modo unánime la obra maestra del rumano Mircea Cartarescu. Visceral ejercicio de autoexploración...

NUOVA EDIZIONE della prima parte di una trilogia che l'autore ha impiegato 14 anni a scrivere e Voland 10 anni a pubblicare nella sua interezza: Abbacinante (L'ala sinistra, Il corpo, L'ala destra). Una...

L'histoire de Théodoros se déroule au XIXe siècle et raconte la vertigineuse ascension, puis la chute terrible, du fils de simples domestiques d'un petit aristocrate roumain. Teodor, dès son plus jeune...

Chef-d'oeuvre de Mircea Cãrtãrescu, Solénoïde est un roman monumental où résonnent des échos de Borges, Swift et Kafka. Il s'agit du long journal halluciné d'un homme ayant renoncé à devenir écrivain,...

Hymne à la liberté et plaidoyer pour la poésie, Le Levant raconte l'aventure de Manoïl, jeune homme sensible et courageux, tourmenté par les malheurs de son peuple, qui sonne la révolte et s'en va renverser...

Dans cette pièce vide, d’à peine trois mètres sur trois, deux enfants complètement nus se tenaient l’un en face de l’autre. Je vois encore avec une grande clarté devant moi, tandis que j’écris ces lignes,...

Ce sont trois longues nouvelles encadrées par deux contes. Melancolia est un livre sur l’expérience de la séparation, sur ce trauma qui a marqué notre naissance et, par la suite, chacune de nos métamorphoses....

Prohibido durante años en Rumanía por lo explícito de su argumento, El Ruletista constituye uno de los más brillantes hitos narrativos de la reciente literatura europea. Esta pieza, tan breve como intensa,...

Inno alla libertà e alla poesia, Il Levante narra le imprese di Manoil, giovane coraggioso che incita il suo popolo alla rivolta per far cadere il despota fanariota, crudele e corrotto. Durante il suo...

Quattro storie si incrociano in un sottile gioco di echi e attraverso la sovrapposizione di tempi e di spazi tendono all'apoteosi finale. Gli sviluppi della rivoluzione romena del 1989 – con la rievocazione...

'Cartarescu is one of the great literary voices of Central Europe' Olga Tokarczuk, Nobel Prize winner and author of Flights'A Danubian Narnia. . . his writing delivers a rainbow-hued riot of fantasy,...

Nel pieno incubo della Romania degli anni '50-'60, la storia di Vasile – il bambino senza ombra nella pittoresca Bucarest del XIX secolo – si fonde e si congiunge, come in un nastro di Möbius, con quella...

Dentro una strana casa a forma di barca uno scrittore fallito consuma la vita creando pianeti nella propria testa, annotando sogni e incubi su un diario folle, vagando con la mente per una Bucarest allucinata,...

NUOVA EDIZIONE della prima parte di una trilogia che l’autore ha impiegato 14 anni a scrivere e Voland 10 anni a pubblicare nella sua interezza: Abbacinante (L’ala sinistra, Il corpo, L’ala destra). Una...

Inno alla libertà e alla poesia, Il Levante narra le imprese di Manoil, giovane coraggioso che incita il suo popolo alla rivolta per far cadere il despota fanariota, crudele e corrotto. Durante il suo...

“...una capacità di scrittura straordinaria e una rara densità nel periodare.” CORRIERE DELLA SERA Un percorso disseminato di incubi, allucinazioni, ossessioni, e uno stile denso e teso per un tema, l’ermafroditismo,...

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The inspiration for the new Netflix series, Lupin, starring Omar Sy. Leblanc's creation, Gentleman thief Arsène Lupin, is everything you would expect from a French aristocrat—witty, charming, brilliant,...

Isolated from society in a tenement basement in St. Petersburg, a malicious former civil servant vents his resentments. In the rambling notes that follow, we are exposed to the inner turmoil of the Underground...

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Jonathan Harker, a young London solicitor travels to Transylvania to help a rich nobleman, Count Dracula, purchase an estate in England. Dracula is planning to immigrate to England, and wants Harker to...

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