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*The Connoisseurs* brings together three extraordinary tales—one from each volume of the *Blinding* (*Cegador*) trilogy—that serve as privileged windows into the most intimate, dreamlike, and exuberant universe of Mircea Cărtărescu. It is a work capable of encapsulating—like a Baroque miniature—the vast, dizzying beauty of the trilogy that transformed contemporary European literature. In "The Badislavs," we witness the flight of an archaic clan across a landscape seemingly born of the Apocalypse, inhabited by angels, demons, and creatures whose existence defies all logic. "The Circus" transports us back to 1960s Bucharest, transformed here into a living organism. A young boy—Mircea himself—attends a spectacle where giant beetles, carpets concealing state secrets, and girls with butterfly wings merge into a tale of memory and revelation. Finally, "The Wedding" sweeps the reader away to Lake Como for the wedding of Count Witold Csartarowsky: a gathering of mythological figures, delirious visions, and memories where the boundaries between time, dreams, and matter dissolve forever.