Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Poetry books:
Poetry anthologies:
In the second part of his career, which includes the present time, Mircea Cărtărescu focused
his writing on prose. His prose writings are listed here below and they are organized in categories
that follow the chronological order in which each book in a given category has been published:
Novels:
1. Nostalgia/Nostalgia (full version of the short story Visul/ The Dream), Humanitas, Bucuresti
1993 and following editions);
2. Travesti/Travesti, Humanitas, Bucharest, 1994;
3. Orbitor. Aripa stângă/ Blinding. The left wing, Humanitas, Bucharest, 1996;
4. Orbitor. Corpul/ Blinding. The body, Humanitas, Bucharest, 2002;
5. Orbitor. Aripa dreaptă/ Blinding. The right wing, Humanitas, Bucharest, 2007;
6. Solenoid/ Solenoid, Humanitas, Bucharest, 2015;
7. Melancolia/ Melancholy, Humanitas, Bucharest, 2019.
Short stories:
Children’s books:
Essays:
1. Visul chimeric/ The chimerical dream, Litera, Bucharest, 1992; Humanitas, Bucharest,
2011;
2. Postmodernismul românesc/ Romanian Postmodernism, Humanitas, Bucharest, 1999;
3. Pururi tânăr, înfăşurat în pixeli/ Forever young, wrapped up in pixels, Humanitas, Bucharest,
2003;
4. Baroane!/ You Baron!, Humanitas, Bucharest, 2005
Audiobooks1
1. Parfumul aspru al ficţiunii/ The rough fragrance of fiction, Humanitas, Bucharest 2009;
2. De ce iubim femeile/ Why we love women, Humanitas, Bucharest, 2004;
3. Ruletistul/ The roulette player, Humanitas, Bucharest, 2011.
Most of his literary work has been translated into many languages, mostly European, namely
Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian,
Italian, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish,
Swedish, Turkish.
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fragments from some of the author’s central writings and they are read by the author himself