Archipelago

The narrator of Prehistoric Times might easily be taken for an inhabitant of Becketts world: a dreamer who in his savage and deductive folly tries to modify reality. The writing, with its burlesque variations, accelerations, and ruptures, takes us into a frightening and jubilant delirium, where the message is in the medium and digression gets...

Volume 1Part visceral dream-memoir, part fictive journey through a hallucinatory Bucharest, Mircea Crtrescu'sBlindingwas one of the most widely heralded literary sensations in contemporary Romania, and a bestseller from the day of its release. Riddled with hidden passageways, mesmerizing tapestries, and whispering butterflies,Blindingtakes us...