Mircea Cartarescu. The rewriting of the fantastic

The book "Mircea Cartarescu. The Rewriting of the Fantastic" offers an in-depth analysis of the fantastic elements in the stories of Romanian author Mircea Cartarescu. Author Pedro Pujante explores the connections between Cartarescu's tales and the works of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar. Central motifs of fantastic literature, such as the doppelgänger motif, the mythification of childhood, and dream-like episodes, are illuminated. This comparative study reveals essential aspects of the Romanian writer's poetics and demonstrates how he reinterprets the fantastic with a postmodern rhetoric. Additionally, Cartarescu's latest works, including "Cegador" and "Solenoide," are examined, which function as autofictional narratives in which the author invents an identity that constructs an imaginary autobiography, blending self-referentiality, myth, and magic.