FOREIGN HANSER RIGHTS - Hanser Literaturverlage
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<strong>FOREIGN</strong><br />
ZSOLNAY<br />
<strong>RIGHTS</strong><br />
Mircea Ca˘rta ˘rescu<br />
Der Körper (Orbitor II)<br />
The Body (Part two of the Orbitor trilogy)<br />
Translated from the Romanian by Gerhardt Csejka<br />
and Ferdinand Leopold<br />
Novel. 608 pages. Hardcover<br />
Publication date: August 29, 2011<br />
Mircea Ca˘rta˘rescu is one of the greatest writers of our time, his latest novel an<br />
explosive fusion of imagination and erudition.<br />
F I CTI O N<br />
When the familiarity and comfort of the study in which he writes falls victim to the<br />
dictator’s urbanite megalomania, Mircea returns to his parent’s apartment on Stefan cel<br />
Mare Avenue. Here, »between the bedposts and the radiator«, the past comes back to life,<br />
as he descends into the »depths of time«. Bucharest is awash with lights and the city is transformed<br />
into literature as Mircea’s hallucinations conjure up great-grandfather Vasili, whose<br />
nightly visits to the Turkish Baths turn heaven into hell; as, every morning, his great-grandmother<br />
Maria is transformed into a crimson-winged butterfly, while sects of ascetic Copts<br />
seek fulfilment by means of auto-castration and Mircea listens to Herman the eccentric read<br />
out loud from the forbidden Bible.<br />
Der Körper is an exploratory offbeat novel filled with nightmare visions; an inspired amalgamation<br />
of fantasticism and physics, tradition and modernity, sensuality and abstraction. This<br />
second part of Cartarescu’s Orbitor trilogy is an alchemistic masterpiece that ranks alongside<br />
Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude and James Joyce’s Ulysses.<br />
»Cartarescu is blessed with the vivid imagination of a prodigious child and the<br />
narrative virtuosity of an old master.« Der Spiegel<br />
Mircea Ca˘rta ˘rescu<br />
born in Bucharest in 1956. His poems and prose have been published since 1978. He has<br />
lived for extended periods in Western Europe. His work has been translated into many languages.<br />
His books include: Nostalgia (1997/2009), Travestie (2010) and Die Wissenden, the<br />
first volume of the Orbitor trilogy, published by Zsolnay in 2007.<br />
Sales to Foreign Countries<br />
Orbitor I: BUL (Faber), F (Denoel), H (Jelenkor), Israel (Nimrod), Italy (Voland), NL<br />
(Bezige Bij), Norway (Bokvennen), S (Bonniers), Spain (Funambulista), SLO (Studentska)<br />
TR (Ayrinti), UK/USA (Archipelago)