![]() Read an essay on Blinding at the LARB by Romanian writer Bogdan Suceavă hereįor more on Cărtărescu’s receiving the award read a report in Deutsche Welle. Read an excerpt from Blinding at the LARB here Previous winners include Yuri Andrukhovych, Slavenka Drakulić, Pankaj Mishra, Timothy Snyder, György Dalos, Claudio Magris and many more. Besides, if you want to really reconcile with Central and Eastern Europe then you need to deal with the phantasmagorical, the absurd and your fair share of megalomania. Rarely does an official explanation of an international jury contain phrases such as “culminates in a blaze of phantasmagorical and apocalyptic splendour,” and “a place of compulsion and delusion under an absurd and megalomaniac dictatorship” but if there’s a novel where they’re going to say them then this is the one. It’s as though Crtrescu has chosen to withdraw from any topical literary. Nostalgia describes a multiple, uncertain, open-ended world while Blinding expands inward, plumbing the infinite depths of an individual imagination. ![]() ![]() The award’s full name is the “Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding”, the idea being that it goes to writers (though they officially refer to them as “personalities”) who “have rendered outstanding services towards the advancement of reconciliation throughout Europe, particularly with the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.” Blinding can seem like a surprising next step after Nostalgia, whatever stylistic qualities the two books may share. The novel originally came out in three separate parts in 1996, 20 respectively, while its outstanding English translation by Sean Cotter was published as a single book by Archipelago Books in 2013. Romanian writer Mircea Cărtărescu has won the Leipzig Book Award for his trilogy Blinding. ![]()
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