Tag: Blinding The Left Wing
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Mother Fevronia dreams of Fra Armando lying on top of Monsieur Monsu, with his body and limbs in corresponding position to the dead man’s. (Cartarescu, p. 202 – 203) Fra […]
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How can one man, Fra Armando, practice Catholicism, voodoo, Islam, and Judaism? “There were few people of the Lord in that region, so Fra Armando was forced to work as […]
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Do you know who Maria Cartarescu is? She is the mother of the author Mircea Cartarescu. In the book Blinding The Left Wing, Inside Maria Cartarescu’s shoulder handbag: This is […]
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Early in the Chapter which started on page 100, Mircea wrote that “… my father would stick his ear to my mother’s stomach and speak, and my skin, thin as […]
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Mircea Cartarescu’s mother dreamed almost night of her parents, and their old family house in Tantava. (Cartarescu, p. 34) A person usually dreams of their heart’s desires. She probably thought […]
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The street where the author Mircea lived, in Stefan cel Mare, of Bucharest, did not have apartment blocks, until a developer built them. Mircea used to dream of climbing mountains, […]