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Blinding

The Left Wing

Mircea Cartarescu Sean Cotter

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Romanian
Penguin Classics
17 February 2026
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.

Translated from Romanian by Sean Cotter
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Imprint:   Penguin Classics
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 135mm,  Spine: 40mm
Weight:   600g
ISBN:   9780241754894
ISBN 10:   0241754895
Pages:   432
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming

Mircea Cartarescu (Author) Mircea Cartarescu was born in Bucharest in 1956. His novels and poetry are widely considered to be the best writing to emerge from post-communist Romania. His books, including the trilogy Blinding, Solenoid and Nostalgia have been translated into over twenty languages. Solenoid was longlisted for the International Booker Prize and he has received many awards, including most recently the Dublin Literary Award, the Thomas Mann Prize and the Prix Formentor. Sean Cotter (Translator) Sean Cotter is Professor of Literature and Translation Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas. He has received the Best Translated Book Award for Poetry and multiple grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Reviews for Blinding: The Left Wing

Cartarescu is no longer writing novels. He is officiating a cult * TLS * One of the greatest literary adventurers in contemporary literature * El Pais * 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 -- Olga Tokarczuk


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