Name: El Levante (in Spanish)
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Author: Mircea Cartarescu
ISBN: 9788415979388

Type

Physical Book

Author

Mircea Cartarescu

Publisher

Impedimenta

Collection

Impedimenta

Year

2015

Language

Spanish

Pages

240

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.00 x 13.00

ISBN13

9788415979388

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "El Levante (in Spanish)"

Mircea Cartarescu comenzó a escribir «El Levante» en 1987, cuando era un amargado profesor en una escuela de barrio en Bucarest. Recién casado y con una hija pequeña, escribía en la cocina, en su máquina de escribir Erika, sobre un mantel de hule; con una mano tecleaba y con la otra mecía el cochecito de la niña. Concluyó la obra pocos meses antes de la caída del comunismo, sin soñar siquiera con la posibilidad de publicarla. El resultado fue uno de los experimentos poéticos más fascinantes escritos jamás: una epopeya heroico-cómica, que es también una aventura a través de la historia de la literatura rumana, que sigue la técnica utilizada por James Joyce en el capítulo del Ulises «Los bueyes del sol». Pero no hace falta conocer la literatura rumana para disfrutar como un niño de las aventuras del poeta Manoil, de Zotalis, de la bella Zenaida, del temible Yogurta, de los piratas y ladrones que pululan por las aguas del Mediterráneo, y de acompañarles en su propia Odisea, plagada de batallas, amores y deserciones. Un delicioso escenario bizantino donde se confunden realidad y ficción, y un cautivador relato que invita a una lectura gozosa, pueril, inolvidable.

Mircea Cartarescu

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Mircea Cartarescu was born on June 1, 1956 in Bucharest, Romania into a middle-class family. From an early age, he showed a strong interest in literature and music, influenced by the counterculture of the 60s and 70s. He pursued his studies at the University of Bucharest, in the faculty of letters where he earned a PhD with a fascinating thesis on Romanian postmodernism. He has been a university professor, editor, and contributor to literary magazines, as well as an active member of the Romanian PEN Club and the European Cultural Parliament.

He began his literary career as a poet in 1978 and published his first book, Faurir, vitrin, fotografii (1980), which earned him the Romanian Writers' Union Award. His work is characterized by lyrical, dreamlike, and experimental prose, in which the boundary between reality and dream blurs. He has explored themes such as memory, identity, recent Romanian history, and the transformative power of literature.

He was awarded the prestigious Formentor Prize for Literature, and has received awards of the importance of the Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding, the Gregor von Rezzori Prize, the Thomas Mann Prize, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature, and the FIL Prize for Literature in Romance Languages. His texts have been translated into more than a dozen languages.

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