‘I took literary revenge against the people who stole my youth’: Romanian author Mircea Cărtărescu
The GuardianNovember 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM1 min read
As the first part of his acclaimed Blinding trilogy is released in the UK, the novelist talks about communism, Vladimir Nabokov – and those Nobel rumours
In 2014, when he was travelling around the US on a book tour, Mircea Cărtărescu was able to fulfil the dream of a lifetime: a tour of Vladimir Nabokov’s butterfly collection. Cărtărescu is a great admirer of the Russian-American author, and shares wi... [9271 chars]
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