Transvestite Book Description: Mircea Cartarescu, Nobel candidate and cult writer of contemporary Romanian literature, tells about the pains of coming to terms with the sexual identity of his hero named Victor in his novel Travesti, which attracted great attention in his country and in the countries where it was translated. Victor remembers seventeen years ago, a school trip he attended when he was seventeen years old. The image of a friend of his, Lulu, who likes to wear women's clothes, comes to his mind. He was touched by it at a summer camp and was fascinated by it. Lulu, who dances erotically in her flamboyant clothes, is the living being that first arouses Victor's sexuality. "The uneasiness that solidifies in my head like a thick sherbet goes down to the bones of my nose, the vertebrae of my neck, and Lulu's image is in mixed colors, headlights made of cat urine, perfume of sable semen, exotic , in rotten and questionable flowers, invading my chest with something pink and sticky, as if it were flowing through eyes covered with oily mascara, and - as it floats like in Dali - it wants to flow: it wants to leak into a puddle on the asphalt, which completely soils me and throws a false leg into the canal. Victor, Do you know that there is a boil on the white skin of my loneliness and the name of this boil is Lulu?" Victor cannot erase the image of Lulu from his mind for years. When he pursues this image, another, much deeper, blurry image, the image of his sister, comes to his mind. But he is not sure; Does such a sister really exist, or is that girl's face Victor's own face? Cartarescu takes the reader on an exciting and entertaining journey, full of striking metaphors and erotic images, in the fragmented minds of the Transvestite and Victor, which is turned upside down with delusions. Number of Pages: 144Print Year: 2013Language: TurkishPublisher: Ayrıntı Yayınları
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