Hidden passages, fascinating tapestries, gigantic butterflies, a mystical exodus to the prehistory of a family. A kaleidoscopic world from which we emerge as if returning from a strange pilgrimage, moved and transformed. "The Left Wing" is the volume that opens "Blinder", the monumental trilogy in the shape of a butterfly, unanimously considered the masterpiece of the Romanian writer Mircea Cartarescu. A visceral exercise in literary self-exploration about female nature and the mother, a fictional journey through the geography of a hallucinated city, a Bucharest that becomes the stage of universal history, "The Left Wing" has become a reference in European literature, and a literary best seller from the moment of its publication. Wandering circuses, agents of the Securitate, gypsies addicted to the poppy flower, a dark sect, the Knowers, who control everything seen and unseen, an army of undead and a host of Byzantine angels sent to fight them, an enlightened albino who cheats death, underground jazz in a New Orleans dream, the irruption of Communism in Romania...