Blinding: Volume 1
Mircea Cartarescu
  • Published: 13 November 2025
  • ISBN: 9781802069051
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 464
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Blinding: Volume 1

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The first volume of the 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.
  • Published: 13 November 2025
  • ISBN: 9781802069051
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 464
Categories:

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Praise for Blinding: Volume 1

Cartarescu is no longer writing novels. He is officiating a cult

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Cartarescu is one of the great literary voices of Central Europe. He daringly questions our usual way of looking at the world, suggesting that rationalism is merely an attempt to create order. In fact, the world is made up of the nuances of our fantasies

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One of the greatest literary adventurers in contemporary literature

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