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Karellen
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“Maybe in the heart of this book there is nothing other than howling, yellow, blinding apocalyptic howling….”
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Karellen
is on page 217 of 432
“The guy fights like three or four at once”
Oh no. Sorry that isn’t English. It’s been translated into American. Hugely disappointing.
— Feb 12, 2026 03:37PM
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Oh no. Sorry that isn’t English. It’s been translated into American. Hugely disappointing.
Karellen
is on page 172 of 432
“I do not think you will find many books with as an intense and vivid vision as Cărtărescu gives us in this book - one of the major works of the late 20th century” according to the modern novel.org
I’m not going to argue. Just a shame that vol 2&3 of the trilogy are not available in English yet ☹️
— Feb 10, 2026 03:28PM
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I’m not going to argue. Just a shame that vol 2&3 of the trilogy are not available in English yet ☹️
Karellen
is on page 114 of 432
End of part 1. Utterly brilliant. On another level than most of the banal tripe that passes for literature. The author is a genius who should be more widely known. Hopefully if more books are translated? I believe that his latest one is being released later this year.
— Feb 08, 2026 02:58PM
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Karellen
is on page 100 of 432
“With tears in my eyes I remember thirty years. I am not in my right mind. A loneliness murmurs in my ears, desperate and soothing at the same time…”
The incredible story continues.
— Feb 08, 2026 08:14AM
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The incredible story continues.
Karellen
is on page 63 of 432
“The past is everything, the future nothing, and time has no other meaning. We live on a piece of plaque in the multiple sclerosis of the universe.”
Surreal and bizarre in equal measure, this intense novel plays havoc with the imagination. An overwhelming sense of the fantastic.
— Feb 06, 2026 03:07PM
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Surreal and bizarre in equal measure, this intense novel plays havoc with the imagination. An overwhelming sense of the fantastic.
Karellen
is on page 34 of 432
This one is a huge beast of a novel, and yet only the first part of a trilogy, of which only The Left Wing has thus been translated. It’s quite a challenging read so far, but that’s ok.
— Feb 04, 2026 02:52PM
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Karellen
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Only on the first chapter and already I’m checking the dictionary. This writer is addictive. Shame that only a few of his novels have been translated thus far.
— Feb 02, 2026 02:52PM
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