by Mircea Cărtărescu · Humanitas · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789735064280
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«Melancolia» is the literary fiction novel by Mircea Cărtărescu, published by Humanitas in paperback (256 pages, in Romanian).
The opening scene shows a child before the statue of Vasile Singurătate, broken and levitating above its pedestal, holding an illegible book of stone. After rereading the inscription carved on the plinth, the boy takes the monument by the arm and walks with it down an empty street, on a journey that seems never to end.
The edition is from 2019; the cover features an abstract painting of grey clouds and a reflected silhouette.
Aimed at readers of contemporary fiction who want to delve into Romanian narrative and the prose of Mircea Cărtărescu.
Mircea Cărtărescu is a Romanian novelist, poet, short-story writer, literary critic, and essayist.
