Blinding by Mircea Cărtărescu | Book Review

[@alinaionescu9436]

Greetings from România!!! I am a big fan of Cărtărescu. Your review is excellent, well documented. I'm glad you enjoyed Blinding, it's really spectacular. I read the entire trilogy 12 years ago and fell in love with Cărtărescu for life. Please read Nostalgia, it is the most fascinating piece of writing you will ever read.... mesmerizing. I hope that one day the complete trilogy will be translated. You have great taste in books... Thank you so much for this review, great job🤗

[@TheActiveMind1]

That's wonderful! I definitely plan to read Nostalgia in 2025

[@rahulangiras8102]

Excellent. I love all your reviews.

[@BobJacobs10]

Nice to hear your thougts, as always. I'm still planning the full trilogy early next year (currently reading some other big books), can't wait! Nostalgia by him is also a great collection of five stories, there is a Penguin edition of these :)

[@hatethenewyou]

100 pages in currently, and certainly confused. Your insights will serve as a great tool for my understanding throughout the rest of the novel. A great video as always and I definitely admire you for even making an attempt to understand this book haha.

[@TheActiveMind1]

Haha no worries! Weather the storm and enjoy the ride - hope my video helps

[@burke9497]

Nice review, as always. I’m going to have to read Solenoid in 2025. The passages you read around 10:00 are very compelling.

[@MadiCovington]

your teeth are blinding 🤩

[@ToReadersItMayConcern]

Considering I've yet to read Solenoid, do you think it would be better for me to start with Blinding, perhaps to avoid the disappointment of direct comparison and to maintain a sense of newness? Or would it be better to just wait for the full three volumes of Blinding, since maybe its incompleteness is where some of the lack arises? Have you read any of László Krasznahorkai? He also has that flow-state feel, but he maintains it within a strict and forward-moving plot (War & War is a great starting point, seemingly most similar to Cărtărescu in manic execution). With Krasznahorkai you can tell he has a specific ending in mind despite the surface-level free-association of his prose.

[@TheActiveMind1]

I've had people recommend Krasznahorkai but I haven't read his work yet. And I'd say dive in with Solenoid as it might make you feel more comfortable reading Blinding and understand what he's getting at somewhat. I do think I heard the trilogy will be published in the next 1-2 years but I'd just get started with Solenoid

[@FabriceLEQUEUX]

hello you are right to talk about this book i read this one 2years ago quite hard ta read at the beginning it releases a magic of the tranformation of beings and people what do you think of my observation,? thank you hi ::: fabrice

[@connord9864]

I understand the comment that Solenoid is more fleshed out and that Blinding is stretched thin but how can we truly know this considering we only have book one of 3 in English? Ive heard the masterpiece is fully fleshed out and is truly brought together when the entire novel (all 3 books) is read. I can’t wait to get these books in English!! Has anyone heard anything?

[@TheActiveMind1]

I agree. I believe at some point later in the video I added that disclaimer that we won't fully know how developed the story is without the rest of the trilogy - but if I didn't make that note, here it is. Word is that Penguin is publishing the trilogy in 2025 or 2026

[@connord9864]

@ wow 2025 release would be amazing I can’t wait and I bet you can’t either!