Cartarescu Theodoros !!exclusive!! - Mircea

In one phantasmagorical episode, the narrator-angels save Theodoros from a rifle shot by creating an entire civilization on the surface of the mid-air bullet, whose inhabitants eventually build an engine to nudge the projectile away from his heart. Community Perspectives

: Published by Deep Vellum Publishing and translated by Sean Cotter , who also translated Cărtărescu’s award-winning Solenoid . mircea cartarescu theodoros

Theodoros is a massive, 800+ page historical novel set in the 16th century. It fictionalizes the life of , a real prince of the despotate of Morea (in the Peloponnese) whose family lost the Byzantine Empire to the Ottomans. Thomas’s children—including Zoe (Sophia) Paleologina —later became crucial to Russian history (Sophia married Ivan III of Moscow). It fictionalizes the life of , a real

Theodoros , as Cărtărescu has hinted in interviews and public readings, is intended to be the . If Solenoid is the question ("What is the shape of reality?"), Theodoros is the ecstatic, terrifying answer: "Reality is a dream dreamed by a dying child, and you are that child." If Solenoid is the question ("What is the shape of reality