Mircea cartarescu biography

I write just one or two pages a day, yes, only in the morning, and I never add or take out anything. But what is important is that I never have a plan or a story in mind.

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Each page is revealed to me at the moment I start to write. Each page could (and does) change everything. This is the only way that I can write, for writing is not a job for me, nor an art, but a faith, a sort of a personal religion.

To continue writing I don’t need to know where I’m headed, only that I can do it, that I’m the only one who can.

This is how I wrote my most important books—Orbitor v. (Blinding v.

Mircea cartarescu biography

1), Levantul, Nostalgia (Nostalgia), and Solenoid—and this is how, for forty-five years, I have written my journal, which is the point of origin for all my writings.

Although in a strict sense you don’t write poetry anymore, you’ve mentioned that you consider yourself a poet above all else.