Where: Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, 573-577 Third Avenue (at 38th Street), New York, NY<\/p>\n
To register for this session, send us an email at romania.nyc@europeanbookclub.org<\/p>\n
The Book: <\/p>\n
Nostalgia<\/em>, by Mircea C\u0103rt\u0103rescu<\/p>\n Nostalgia<\/em> \u201cintroduces to English 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. (\u2026) C\u0103rt\u0103rescu indulges in compassion and love for his former selves and is a childlike (that is to say fierce) defender of both memory and the freedom to dream.\u201d \u2013 Andrei Codrescu<\/p>\n Although each of its five chapters stands alone, a thematic, even mesmeric harmony finds itself in children\u2019s games, the music of the spheres, humankind\u2019s primordial myth-making, the origins of the universe, and in the dilapidated tenement blocks of an apocalyptic Bucharest during the years of communist dictatorship. In one story, which involves a roulette player who survives against astonishing odds, the narrator admits the roulette player could not have existed, but did, because \u201cthere is a place in the world where the impossible is possible, namely in fiction.\u201d<\/p>\n The Author:<\/p>\n Mircea C\u0103rt\u0103rescu (b. 1956 in Bucharest) is one of Romania\u2019s leading novelists, and is considered by many to be the most important Romanian author writing today. In Romania he has a popular following across older and younger generations, and although he is widely read in translation in Europe, only one of his novels has appeared in English to date \u2013 Nostalgia<\/em> (originally published in Romanian in 1989).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Where: Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, 573-577 Third Avenue (at 38th Street), New York, NY To register for this session, send us an email at romania.nyc@europeanbookclub.org The Book: Nostalgia, by Mircea C\u0103rt\u0103rescu Nostalgia \u201cintroduces to English a writer who has always had a place reserved for him in a constellation that includes the Brothers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347926,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278406\/revisions\/347926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}