The “Blinding” trilogy (Romanian: “Orbitor”) written by Romania writer Mircea C?rt?rescu was considered the best book of the 2015 edition of Leipzig Book Fair. The trilogy is an inroad in the surrealism world unveiling the absurdities of Romanian communism. Leipzig Book Fair opened on Wednesday, March 10 and is meant to pay a tribute to the personalities who built real cultural bridges between Western, Central and Eastern Europe.
The three volumes of “Blinding” trilogy were translated in German and were published at Zsolnay publishing house in Vienna. The first volume “Blinding. The right wing” was translated in English in 2013 and published by Archipelago Books in New York.
Mircea C?rt?rescu told an interview to DW TV that writing is a way to “keep your inner freedom in a totalitarian regime.”
“Blinding trilogy is an universal volume giving birth to various worlds of knowledge and utterance which overflow with physic, romancing and apocalyptic. The butterfly’s metaphor, the symbol of the entire trilogy, represents the very image of the metamorphosis and of the endless world transformation,” Zsolnay publish house informs in a press release.
Mircea C?rt?rescu was born on June 1, 1956, in Bucharest. He attended the Faculty of Philology of the University of Bucharest and debuted as a poet. Gradually, he fenced off from poetry, dedicating himself almost exclusively to prose.