AN INTERVIEW WITH MIRCEA CĂRTĂRESCU

A central figure in European literature, Mircea Cărtărescu has been building a visionary body of work from Bucharest, where memory, dreams, and dizzying flights of imagination intersect. Translated worldwide, he published in 2024 Théodoros (trans. Laure Hinckel, Noir sur Blanc), a dazzling fresco recounting the meteoric rise of a young boy who becomes the improbable emperor of Ethiopia. In October 2025, his masterpiece L’Aile gauche [The Left Wing], the first volume of the "Orbitor" trilogy—a kaleidoscopic world-book where childhood, nightmares, and visions unfold with incantatory power—finally reappears in a new translation at Denoël. This exceptional evening invites the public to enter, alongside the author, a unique literary universe, both intimate and cosmic, that transforms and overwhelms all who venture into it.

Hosted by Romain de Becdelièvre (France Culture)