Mircea Caratarescu’s literary biography
Collective poetry anthologies:
1. Aer cu diamante/ Air with diamonds, Cartea Românească, Bucharest, 1982;
2. Testament – Anthology of Modern Romanian Verse (1850–2015), Daniel Ionita – editor
and principal translator – with Eva Foster, Daniel Reynaud and Rochelle Bews, Minerva
Publishing House, Bucharest 2015.
Poetry books:
1. Faruri, vitrine, fotografii/ Headlights, shop windows, photographs, Cartea Românească,
Bucharest, 1980;
2. Poeme de amor/ Love poems, Cartea Românească, Bucharest, 1982;
3. Totul/ Everything, Cartea Românească, Bucharest, 1984;
4. Levantul/ The Levant (epic poem), Cartea Românească, Bucharest, 1990; Humanitas,
Bucharest, 1998;
5. Dragostea/ Love (poems written in the period 1984-1987), Humanitas, Bucharest, 1994;
6. Cincizeci de sonete/ Fifty sonnets, Brumar, Timişoara, 2003;
7. Nimic/ Nothing (poems written in the period 1988-1992), Humanitas, Bucharest, 2010;
Poetry anthologies:
1. Dublu CD/ Double CD, Humanitas, Bucharest, 1998;
2. Plurivers vol. I & II/ Pluriverse vol. I & II, Humanitas, Bucharest, 2003;
3. Dublu album/ Double album, Humanitas, Bucharest, 2009;
4. Poezia/ Poetry, Humanitas, Bucharest, 2015;
Translations:
1. Viata, patimile si cantecele lui Leonard Cohen – Cu 32 de poeme traduse de Mircea
Cartarescu/ The life, the passions and the songs of Leonard Cohen - With 32 poems
translated by Mircea Cartarescu, Mircea Mihăieş, Polirom, Iaşi, 2005;
2. Bob Dylan. Suflare in vant. 100 de poeme traduse de Mircea Cartarescu/ Bob Dylan.
Blowing in the wind. 100 poems translated by Mircea Cartarescu, Humanitas Fiction,
Bucharest, 2012.
In the second part of his career, which includes the present time, Mircea Cărtărescu focused
his writing on prose. His prose writings are listed here below and they are organized in categories
that follow the chronological order in which each book in a given category has been published:
Collective prose anthologies:
1. Desant '83/ Assault troops ’83, Cartea Românească, 1983.
Novels:
1. Nostalgia/Nostalgia (full version of the short story Visul/ The Dream), Humanitas, Bucuresti
1993 and following editions);
2. Travesti/Travesti, Humanitas, Bucharest, 1994;
3. Orbitor. Aripa stângă/ Blinding. The left wing, Humanitas, Bucharest, 1996;
4. Orbitor. Corpul/ Blinding. The body, Humanitas, Bucharest, 2002;
5. Orbitor. Aripa dreaptă/ Blinding. The right wing, Humanitas, Bucharest, 2007;
6. Solenoid/ Solenoid, Humanitas, Bucharest, 2015;
7. Melancolia/ Melancholy, Humanitas, Bucharest, 2019.
Short stories:
1. Visul/ The dream, Cartea Românească, Bucharest, 1989;
2. De ce iubim femeile/ Why we love women, Humanitas, Bucharest, 2004;
3. Frumoasele străine/ Beautiful strangers, Humanitas, Bucharest, 2010;
4. Ochiul căprui al dragostei noastre/ The brown eye of our love, Humanitas, Bucharest, 2012;
5. Fata de la marginea vieţii/ The girl on the edge of life, Humanitas, Bucharest, 2014;
6. Peisaj după isterie/ Landscape after hysteria, Humanitas, 2017;
Diaries:
1. Jurnal I 1990-1996/ Diary I 1990-1996, Humanitas, Bucharest, 2001;
2. Jurnal II 1997-2003, / Diary II 1997-2003, Humanitas, Bucharest, 2005;
3. Zen. Jurnal 2004–2010/ Zen. Diary 2004-2010, Humanitas, Bucharest, 2011;
4. Un om care scrie. Junal 2011–2017/ A man who writes. Diary 2011-2017, Humanitas,
Bucharest, 2018;
Children’s books:
1. Enciclopedia zmeilor/ The Encyclopedia of Dragons, Humanitas, Bucharest, 2002.
Essays:
1. Visul chimeric/ The chimerical dream, Litera, Bucharest, 1992; Humanitas, Bucharest,
2011;
2. Postmodernismul românesc/ Romanian Postmodernism, Humanitas, Bucharest, 1999;
3. Pururi tânăr, înfăşurat în pixeli/ Forever young, wrapped up in pixels, Humanitas, Bucharest,
2003;
4. Baroane!/ You Baron!, Humanitas, Bucharest, 2005
Audiobooks1
1. Parfumul aspru al ficţiunii/ The rough fragrance of fiction, Humanitas, Bucharest 2009;
2. De ce iubim femeile/ Why we love women, Humanitas, Bucharest, 2004;
3. Ruletistul/ The roulette player, Humanitas, Bucharest, 2011.
Most of his literary work has been translated into many languages, mostly European, namely
Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian,
Italian, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish,
Swedish, Turkish.
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fragments from some of the author’s central writings and they are read by the author himself
