Blinding: The Left Wing

One of the greatest literary adventurers in contemporary literature

El Pais

Cartarescu is no longer writing novels. He is officiating a cult

TLS

Cartarescu is one of the great literary voices of Central Europe. He daringly questions our usual way of looking at the world, suggesting that rationalism is merely an attempt to create order. In fact, the world is made up of the nuances of our fantasies

Olga Tokarczuk

In this wise, stunning novel, everything is divided: the narrator; the history through which that narrator lives; the very city of Bucharest. Unlike many authors who play at the edges of what makes fiction fictive or what can be said to constitute reality, Cartarescu manages to keep his profundity engaging, his irony humorous, his wit acid but not cruel

Andrew Solomon

Gripping, impassioned, unexpected--the qualities that the best in literature possesses

Los Angeles Times Book Review

Fluidly translated by Sean Cotter… the book has a cinematic quality that we don’t so much read as drift through — as in an amusement park ride. What fantastic notion, or iteration of metamorphosing insect will pop out and regale us next? If you’re game for a mystical mind-bend, give Blinding a go

The Los Angeles Review