{"id":11041,"date":"2013-10-22T12:44:26","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T16:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=11041"},"modified":"2013-10-22T12:44:26","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T16:44:26","slug":"mircea-cartarescu-blinding-in-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/mircea-cartarescu-blinding-in-brooklyn\/","title":{"rendered":"Mircea C\u0103rt\u0103rescu & “Blinding” in Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wish I could be there (but am stuck in California)!<\/p>\n

\u00a0TONIGHT:\u00a0<\/b>Mircea C\u0103rt\u0103rescu &\u00a0Eric Banks at Community Bookstore<\/b><\/h3>\n

\"Blindingforweb1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nDear Friends,<\/p>\n

We hope you’ll join us tonight<\/b> in welcoming Mircea C\u0103rt\u0103rescu, bestselling Romanian author of BLINDING<\/b><\/a>, a kaleidoscopic novel tracing a man’s life, from his memories of traveling circuses, zombie armies, American fighter pilots, the underground jazz scene of New Orleans, to the installation of the Communist regime.<\/p>\n

C\u0103rt\u0103rescu\u00a0will appear in conversation with Brooklyn writer and critic Eric Banks.<\/p>\n

Community Bookstore <\/a><\/b>143 Seventh Ave. Brooklyn, NY<\/p>\n

TONIGHT<\/b>, Oct. 22, 7pm<\/b><\/p>\n

Subway Directions: <\/b>F, B, or Q trains to the 7th Avenue stop 2 or 3 to Grand Army Plaza R to Union Street<\/p>\n

\u00a0__________<\/p>\n

Praise for BLINDING<\/p>\n

The reader is invited to embrace this feeling of overwhelming comprehension, this comprehensive vision exceeding life and imagination. As Borges said when Joyce\u2019s\u00a0Ulysses<\/i>\u00a0was published, this text does not aspire to be a novel, but a cathedral.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Bogdan Suceav\u0103, Los Angeles Review of Books<\/i><\/p>\n

Cartarescu\u2019s magical mystery tour has begun. Memories warp into fantasies and cityscape melts in and out of dreamscape. Segments of realism (the narrator\u2019s family\u2019s history, his country\u2019s Soviet occupation) serve as springboards to great swaths of surrealism, much of it nightmarish (marauding zombie armies, statues that come to life). We get gypsy folklore, bloody legends, close-up anatomical detail and grotesque erotic reveries.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Malcolm Forbes, Minneapolis Star Tribune<\/i><\/p>\n

A writer who has always had a place reserved for him in a constellation that includes the Brothers Grimm, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges, Bruno Schulz, Julio Cortazar, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Milan Kundera, and Milorad Pavic, to mention just a few.<\/i><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Andrei Codrescu<\/i> <\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\u00a0<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
\u00a0<\/b><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nArchipelago Books 232 Third St. #A111 Brooklyn, NY 11215 USA<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wish I could be there (but am stuck in California)! \u00a0TONIGHT:\u00a0Mircea C\u0103rt\u0103rescu &\u00a0Eric Banks at Community Bookstore   Dear Friends, We hope you’ll join us tonight in welcoming Mircea C\u0103rt\u0103rescu, bestselling Romanian author of...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202,103],"tags":[164,1440],"class_list":["post-11041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-launch","category-translation","tag-archipelago-books","tag-mircea-cartarescu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11041"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11049,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11041\/revisions\/11049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}