Born 1956 · Romania
Observator cultural 2023 · Winner
Theodoros
Mircea Cărtărescu · 66 when first published
Novel · 632 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:Tudor, the son of a servant on a Wallachian boyar’s estate, sets out on adventures across the Greek archipelago that will make him Emperor of Ethiopia, his story written down by archangels for the Last Judgement.
Observator cultural 2020 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Melancholy”
Mircea Cărtărescu · 63 when first published
Short stories · 256 pages · Coming of age
AI-generated summary:Three stories evoke a childhood and adolescence wrapped in deep reverie, in which a lonely boy, ignored by parents and classmates, finds his only friends among the dead of a distant cemetery.
Observator cultural 2016 · Winner
Solenoid
Mircea Cărtărescu · 59 when first published
Novel · 840 pages · Autofiction, Speculative
AI-generated summary:A man living the most banal of obscure lives decides to write a report on his anomalies: things that have happened to him that happen neither in life nor in books, and that need a new form to be told.
Observator cultural 2008 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“Blinding: The Right Wing”
Mircea Cărtărescu · 51 when first published
Novel · 576 pages · Autofiction, Politics · Orbitor, book 3
AI-generated summary:The last part of a trilogy set in the communist Bucharest of drab apartment blocks and the children who grow up among them: Mircea’s mind, his father turned journalist, his mother struggling to feed the family, and the 1989 Revolution seen from within.