Books matching: 1980s communist bucharest
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Save:'Nostalgia' by Mircea Cartarescu is a collection of five unconnected stories, which the author subtitled as a novel. The stories play with ideas of authorship and authority, incorporating postmodern effects like shifting points of view, blurring of dreams and reality, and episodes of magical realism. The first story involves a roulette player surviving against astonishing odds, while the second story, 'The Twins', consists of a banal adolescent romance intertwined with descriptions of a man dressing in drag. The book's prose shines occasionally, with descriptions like a suicide on the pavement displaying a noble profile against a cheery stain. The collection is described as self-consciously postmodern, which may be off-putting for readers accustomed to realist fiction.
I record here (for what reason?) these verses from Eliot. In any case, not as a possible opening for one of my books, because I will never write anything else again. Yet, if I write these lines,...
