Blinding: The Left Wing by Cartarescu, Mircea

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Author: Cartarescu, MirceaModern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Published on 13 November 2025 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of the Penguin International Writers series.Paperback | 432 pages215 x 135 | 600g
An enthralling, hallucinatory masterwork by one of Central Europes most celebrated novelistsWe exist between the past and future like the vermiform body of a butterfly, in between its two wingsBeneath the streets of communist Bucharest linger hidden passageways, lost to memory. Here, sprawling hospitals give way to travelling circuses and underground jazz clubs, and Cartarescus 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 Cartarescus Blinding is one of the most widely heralded literary sensations in contemporary Romania, and a fascinating, kaleidoscopic journey into the past.