![]() ![]() There is a sense, throughout both Nostalgia and its much later companion, that much of the importance in a post-totalitarian world of stories of this sort lies in the ability to story them in words: to make-believe the future is describable. ![]() The protagonist of Solenoid ( 2015 trans Sean Cotter 2022) is conveyed to/given visions of existences in other Dimensions, his access provided by the eponymous device constructed from a design by Nikola Tesla. The butterfly-shaped intertwining narratives contained in the Orbitor sequence, beginning with Orbitor, Vol 1: Aripa Stângă ( 1996 trans Sean Cotter as Blinding, Book One: The Left Wing 2013), are explicitly influenced by the work of Thomas Pynchon, and generate a sense of the world irradiated by obscurely networked conspiracies. Giants roam this world (see Great and Small) a central building contains the secrets of the universe (see Library) the music of the spheres is longed for and (deliriously) rediscovered. An Excerpt from Mircea Crtrescu’s Blinding, Book I Part memoir, part fiction, 'Blinding' is a Romanian bestseller by a member of the 'Blue-jeans Generation,' just translated into. ![]() He is of some sf interest for his first novel, Visul ( 1989 uncensored version, vt Nostalgia 1993 trans Julian Semilian 2005), where an exorbitant use of the topoi of Fantastika are assembled (and re-assembled through the five disparate sections of the work) into a kaleidoscopic rendering of the fractured reality of a state like Romania during and after the plague of totalitarianism. (1956- ) Romanian teacher, poet and author, active from around 1978. ![]()
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