Writer Mircea Cărtărescu: "I write without a plan." | Louisiana Channel

[@MilutinIvanovic-o5n]

Mircea is a such a brilliant and great writer, here in Serbia we love to read him a lot, our translator who specialized for his books died in fire accident at home 3 years ago so now we have to wait for someone else to translate 2nd and 3rd part of his famous trilogy Orbitor and his other book Solenoid.

[@PatataSimbolica]

@@MilutinIvanovic-o5n I didn't knew he was widely read there. Here in Spain is one of the most acclaimed living writers, his work is one of the big authors in one of the most important and respected independent book publishers of the country (Impedimenta). We have Solenoid and the orbitor books here and most people I've heard talking about them says amazing stuff about the books, I hope you guys can have a new translator soon

[@MilutinIvanovic-o5n]

@@PatataSimbolica Serbia-Romania border has length of 550km, we are very close neighbours and we share same religion (Orthodox Christianity) and our bond is strong as ever when it comes to culture, movies, literature, music...We even translated all books from Mircea Eliade, but somehow when it comes to Cartarescu books they obviously require a lot of time and focus and attention to details for an excellent translation and right now nobody wants to deal with that business after death of our expert woman for his work. Hope our publisher find a new translator soon. Luckily when it comes to Spanish and Latin American writers we are blessed to have all the classics and modern pieces available in our language.

[@PatataSimbolica]

@MilutinIvanovic-o5n it's great to hear that most the great Spanish and Latin American literature are translated into Serbian. I don't know anything about Serbian literature, what are the big classics there?

[@MilutinIvanovic-o5n]

@@PatataSimbolica Our Nobel Prize literature winner Ivo Andric has a great classic The Bridge on the Drina (Un Puente sobre el Drina), Danilo Kis also famous Serbian writer in the world has a book called A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (Una Tumba para Boris Davidovich) and we have Milorad Pavic, his Dictionary of the Khazars (Diccionario jazaro)

[@Paromita_M]

We have a similar situation in English that only one volume of Orbitor - Blinding - is available so far. We are lucky to have an excellent translation for Solenoid. I hope more of Cartarescu's works get translated and we all get to read them.

[@timothymontes2049]

Modest literary career? He should be in the shortlist for the Nobel Prize... I love his writing.

[@Phaedrus88]

In my opinion this is the worlds greatest living writer, thank you for this!

[@Paromita_M]

Beautiful interview. A maestro of our times. I feel lucky to be able to read some of his works in English - Solenoid, Blinding, Nostalgia. I look forward to reading Theodoros, maybe the other two volumes of Orbitor and hopefully even his diaries in English in the future.

[@Aphorismenoi]

I'm from Morocco I might be the first one who've read Solanoid in my country I waited for months to get the book through here; Thus this man instantly became my favorite writor. The GOAT 🐐

[@whoami6702]

❤ Thank you ❤ Such a beautiful human being to witness & listen to ❤ I feel to read his writings ❤

[@mariaholvoegouras936]

wonderful interview.

[@lachenmann]

What a beautiful interview of the greatest living writer!

[@andrastetriformis6241]

I am the same way as I write, becoming chained to a plot outline feels no longer like creative writing but formulaic and restrictive. Nin and Miller understood this, too. A beautiful interview. ❤

[@PatataSimbolica]

I really want to see how English speakers will react to theodoros.

[@pamzavada5269]

Who is Theodoros?

[@PatataSimbolica]

@pamzavada5269 theodoros is the last book written by Mircea Cartarescu to be translated into Spanish. There isn't an English translation yet. I haven't read that much, but it has some of the best writing I've read. It's also a big shift in the style of the author being a semi-historical novel with most action occurring outside Romania (the country where most of Cartarescu's work happens).

[@pamzavada5269]

@@PatataSimbolica Thank you!

[@DanielBadosa]

No me esperaba encontrar en los comentarios de una entrevista de Mircea a un compadre con una foto de perfil de Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou y con un nick legendario como "Patata simbolica". Esto si que es poetic cinema de verdad.

[@PatataSimbolica]

@DanielBadosa grandísimo Yokohama kaidashi kikou.

[@sergionavarro4203]

No creo, todos los escritores escriben según un guión, un plan. No se haga al iluminado por favor señor "creativo"

[@ahmetepik]

I' sorry but I don't take any writer seriously who can't even dare to say anything about the ongoing Gaza genocide which has already left behind 50.000 dead, 125.000 wounded and 20.000 still under the rubble. Shame...

[@timothymontes2049]

Mein Kampf had a lot to say about issues at that time.... The effects of World War 1, the conspiracy of the Jews. At around the same time Hitler was concerned about the effects of the war he participated in, an obscure Czech writer named Kafka was writing strange novels about waking up an insect and getting lost in a castle....

[@bugsbunnywearingasmoking801]

When you are so much weaker and more resourceless than your opponent, do you expect to get away with a frontal attack on them and the funding of the richest country in the world? If Hamas wanted a fair fight, it could have started by not being so stupid

[@ahmetepik]

@@bugsbunnywearingasmoking801 I'm not defending Hamas. Neither I support them. My argument is simple; No contemporary writer can turn his back to Gaza genocide and the plight of those millions of Palestinian people. If she/he does, than I refuse to call him a writer. Universal conscience is everything a writer should have. If he doesn't have it, than shame on him.

[@timothymontes2049]

@@ahmetepik a Palestinian writer should do that. Mircea writes about his own country Romania in such a way that other countries appreciate. Incidentally why are there no great writers who write for Palestinians? The last Arab to win the Nobel Prize was the Egyptian Naguib Mahfouz and some Islamist tried to kill him by stabbing...

[@ahmetepik]

@@timothymontes2049 I'm not talking about writing novels on Palestine. I'm talking about this pathetic conspricy of silence among western writers on Gaza genocide; I see nothing, I hear nothing and I say nothing!.. I'm absolutely sure, if this terrible genocide had happened anywhwere else in the world, western writers would have raised their voices by now, strongly protesting the culprit.