Mircea Cărtărescu
Mircea Cărtărescu ( born June 1, 1956 in Bucharest ) is a Romanian writer.
Life
Mircea Cărtărescu comes from a poor family and grew up in Bucharest. After a philology studies and several years of experience as a secondary school teacher Cărtărescu worked as a lecturer in Romanian language and literature at the University of Bucharest. His literary taste was until 1989 exclusively to poetry. The poems " Faruri, vitrine, fotografii " ( " headlights, window, light images " ) brought him in 1980 the price of the Romanian Writers' Union. Published in the next twenty years Cărtărescu " Poeme de amor" ( "Love Poems "), " Totul " ( " the big picture" ), " Levantul " ( " Levant "), " Dragostea " ( "Love "), " dublu CD " ( " Double CD ") and" 50 Sonete " ( " sonnets 50 "). He holds the untranslated - and, as he says, untranslatable - epic poem " Levantul " for his " best book ". Cartarescu is now recognized in the West as one of the most important representatives of the Romanian postmodernism.
After many years of journalistic involvement in the major literary magazines Romania Cărtărescu made in 1999 as a literary critic, an important contribution to the debate on the renewal by way of ( Romanian ) Literature: His dissertation " Postmodernismul românesc " ( " The Romanian postmodernism ") is a written from the perspective of postmodernism analysis of the Romanian literature of the present.
Since 1978 he published poetry and short stories. The 2007 German published novel The knower is the first part of a trilogy entitled Orbitor in the original. Their third part has come out in the fall of 2007 in Romania.
2008 published by Suhrkamp his short stories "Why do women love ", a translation of the Romanian Bestsellers of 2005 ( " De ce iubim femeile ", Humanitas ).
The House of World Cultures Cărtărescu recorded in 2012 for his novel The body with the International Literature Prize. With the body the author has succeeded in a brilliant novel and linguistically electrifying artwork of rare intensity and luminosity. The self-exploration of Icherzählers Mircea going to the world of exploration and a broad literary networked thinking, together lead the smallest and largest elements of existence, thinking and speaking in neuronal imagery with the cosmos interweave the verdict of the jury.
Works (selection)
- Nostalgia. From the Rumanian by Gerhardt Csejka. Nation and world Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-353-01094-7
- Self-Portrait in a match flame. Poems. From the Rumanian by Gerhardt Csejka. DAAD Berlin Artists Program, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89357-099-3
- Why we love the women. Stories. From the Rumanian by Ernest Wichner. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-518-41961-8
- Travesty. From the Rumanian by Ernest Wichner. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-518-42179-6
Orbitor trilogy:
- The knower. Part 1. From the Rumanian by Gerhardt Csejka. Zsolnay Verlag, Wien 2007, ISBN 3-552-05406-5,
- Of the body. 2nd part. From the Rumanian by Gerhardt Csejka and Ferdinand Leopold. Zsolnay Verlag, Wien 2011, ISBN 978-3-552-05504-9