Max Blecher

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Often called “theKafka of Romania,” Max Blecher died young but not before creating thisincandescent novel.

Adventures in Immediate Irreality

"Scarred Hearts is a masterpiece. . . . It is a book to live with, to read again and again, as only great literature demands us to."--Paul Bailey "Elegant and powerful."--Financial Times "It is a matter for rejoicing that this small masterpiece should survive to delight readers of another century."--Daily Telegraph It is Paris in the 1930s and Emanuel, a Romanian student, finds himself dangerously ill with spinal tuberculosis. Sent to a sanatorium near the coast, he remains wrapped in a full body cast for a year. But while he endures his terrible cure, he unexpectedly falls in love.

Scarred Hearts

Întîmplări în irealitatea imediată

Inimi cicatrizate

The collected poems of the late Romanian-Jewish author Max Blecher (The Lighted Burrow, Scarred Hearts, Adventures in Immediate Unreality), including the titular collection as well as poems published in periodicals and posthumously. The first time collected in English.

And Other Poems

Transparent Body

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Întâmplări din irealitatea imediată. Inimi cicatrizate. Vizuina luminată

Emmanuel, a young man with spinal tuberculosis and confined to a sanatorium outside Paris, narrates his and his fellow patients' attempts to live life to the fullest as their bodies slowly atrophy and die. Blending dark humor and pathos, Scarred Hearts was hailed as a masterpiece on publication in Romanian in 1939, and was more recently compared to Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain and the fiction of Franz Kafka. Like Emmanuel, Max Blecher suffered from tuberculosis of the spine, and spent the last year of his life in a full body cast and wheelchair, before dying at age twenty-nine with two novels completed.

A Sanatorium Journal

The Lighted Burrow

In childhood, Blecher suffers 'crises of unreality' and an eerie stage is set for a future of unsettling characters and events. This autobiograpical fiction offers an account of Blecher's ambiguous, dream-like experiences of sexual awakening as an adolescent.

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