At Bookforum Morten Høi Jensen has a Q & A with Mircea Cărtărescu, as the first volume of his Orbitor-trilogy recently came out in English, as Blinding, from Archipelago -- see their publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.
Interesting that he says he wrote the entire novel -- over the course of fourteen years -- abroad, and that:
Interesting that he says he wrote the entire novel -- over the course of fourteen years -- abroad, and that:
I have to make a living in Romania, so I can't afford to write there. Instead I try to find grants or opportunities to live abroad.I should be getting to this soon; meanwhile, the only one of his titles currently under review at the complete review is Nostalgia.