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Mircea Cartarescu

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Mircea Cartarescu

Romania

Mircea Cartarescu is Romania’s premier novelist and poet. His books have been translated in all major European languages. Nostalgia, from which “The Roulette Player” is excerpted, was published by New Directions in 2005. Cartarescu is a perennial favorite for the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Articles by Mircea Cartarescu

Nabokov in Brasov

By Mircea Cartarescu

I was asked to join Securitate.

Translated from Romanian by Julian Semilian

From “The Roulette Player”

By Mircea Cartarescu

The roulette with three bullets greased inside the chamber fuses in my mind with the events that followed.

Translated from Romanian by Julian Semilian

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Mircea Cartarescu

Mircea Cartarescu

Articles by Mircea Cartarescu

Nabokov in Brasov

From “The Roulette Player”