MIRCEA CĂRTĂRESCU. A LABYRINTH IN PALIMPSEST
MIRCEA CĂRTĂRESCU. A LABYRINTH IN PALIMPSEST

Summary/Abstract: Poet, prose writer, theorist, Mircea Cărtărescu navigates with ease, naturalness, and aplomb in the fields of literature, without a trace of artifice or affectation. Mircea Cărtărescu's prose, the most appreciated and publicized dimension of his work, is characterized by forays into the chimerical, autobiographical accents, and poetic iridescence. The epic feeds on the iridescence of the chimera, the effusions of autobiography, and the aromas of books, with the reader acutely feeling the impact of imaginary and anamnestic projections, but also the exultations of spaces imbued with nostalgic, strange, and ritualistic arabesques. The writer's ability to draw archetypal images, paradigmatic symbols, echoes of the original, evocative spaces of childhood resembling labyrinths that camouflage the past of the being in quasi-mythical scents and dreamlike reflections seems exemplary.

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