Mircea Cartarescu on breakthrough American tour promoting latest translation of his 'Solenoid'
The Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) in New York has announced a breakthrough American tour, April 3-14, for the release of a new English edition of the novel "Solenoid" by Mircea Cartarescu, published by Deep Vellum last fall translated by Sean Cotter.
The tour will include five cities in North America - San Francisco, Seattle, Dallas, Houston and New York - and the events will be organised in well-known venues, such as City Lights Bookstore, Seattle Public Library, UT Dallas, Inprint Publishing and McNally Jackson Books Seaport, according to ICR New York.
In San Francisco, the launch will take place at City Lights Bookstore, a legendary literary space, one of the birthplaces of the influential Beat movement, while in New York, Mircea Cartarescu will meet American readers in one of the most known in libraries in Manhattan, McNally Jackson Books, with his interlocutors being well-known personalities of American literary and cultural life, such as Dustin Illingworth, Andrea Bajani, Ileana Marin, and Sean Cotter.
According to ICR New York, at the end of 2022, Deep Vellum - a publishing house recognised for its excellent translations of European authors - published an English edition of the novel "Solenoid" by Mircea Cartarescu translated by one of the most acclaimed contemporary translators of Romanian literature, Sean Cotter.
While not his first English translation, Mircea Cartarescu's Solenoid, published by Deep Vellum, is his first book that has truly captured the imagination of the American critics and public alike.
"A highly-acclaimed master work of fiction from Cartarescu, author of Blinding: an existence (and eventually a cosmos) created by forking paths. Finalist of Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. Named one of the best books of 2022 by the New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, The Financial Times, and Words Without Borders," according to ICR New York.
The full schedule of the tour is published on https://www.rciusa.info/ All information about the events in which Cartarescu will participate will be updated in real time.
The promotion tour is organised by the Romanian Cultural Institute and ICR New York, in partnership with Deep Vellum, with support from City Lights Bookstore, Seattle Public Library, Wild Detectives, UT Dallas, Inprint Publishing, McNally Jackson Books and the American Romanian Cultural Society Seattle. AGERPRES (RO - author: Daniel Popescu, editor: Florin Marin; EN - author: Corneliu-Aurelian Colceriu, editor: Maria Cristina Zaharia)
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