Nostalgia

Mircea Cărtărescu · b. 1956 · Romania

Originally Nostalgia (Romanian)

Why it matters

Linked stories of visionary, myth-drunk Bucharest boyhood build into something between memoir and cosmology. Cărtărescu's maximalist breakthrough, and a perennial case for the Nobel Prize.

At a glance

Hallucinatory, maximalist prose blending memoir, myth, and cosmology in dense imagery.