I would like to start by asking you about your literary influences. Which writers have influenced you the most and what did you find particularly striking in the writing of each of these authors? The writers who have influenced me … Continue reading →
I am honoured again to publish on The Untranslated an interview with Mircea Cărtărescu. Like the previous time, the interview was conducted by my Belgian friends Emiel Roothooft and Remo Verdickt, whom I had the pleasure of meeting in Antwerp … Continue reading →
The reception of the English translation of Schattenfroh (tr. Max Lawton, ed. Matthias Friedrich) proved to be considerably more enthusiastic than I had expected. It is really heart-warming to see so many readers seriously engage with this extraordinary book. To … Continue reading →
I finished my 2019 review of Schattenfroh with these words: “it would be great to have an album with complete colour reproductions of all the artworks described in the novel, preferably in the order of appearance.” Six years later, and … Continue reading →
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Reluctant to wait for the first translations of Mircea Cărtărescu’s latest novel to start coming out in the second half of 2024, I taught myself enough Romanian to read it in the original. This “pseudo-historical novel”, as the author prefers … Continue reading →
