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Mircea Cărtărescu teaches Romanian literature course at Columbia University in New York

September 5, 2024

Renowned Romanian writer Mircea Cărtărescu is the Harriman Institute’s 2024 Writer in Residence at Columbia University in New York, where he will teach the four-week course “Postmodernism vs. Tyranny: A Romanian Literary Revolution,” the Romanian Embassy to the US announced.

The course will examine the legendary Generation of the 1980s (the Blue...

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