Mircea Cartarescu: Bucharest is kind of unique city, bizarre blend of supermodern and dereliction

Author Mircea Cartarescu says in an interview with AGERPRES as part of MY CITY BUCHAREST project that Bucharest for him is a paradoxical city, somehow out of time, kind of unique, 'a bizarre blend of supermodern and dereliction.'

The author of 'Orbitor' (Blinding) novel speaks of his childhood and teenage years spent in a clean and very green city, as Bucharest was back in the 1960s-1970s, of the magical place around the State Circus, the buildings moved by sliding, the Dambovita Mill that has been torn down or Vaporul lui Assan.

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