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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by the New
Yorker, Publishers Weekly, The Financial
Times, Words Without Borders A highly-acclaimed master work
of fiction from Cărtărescu, author of Blinding: an existence (and
eventually a cosmos) created by forking paths. Based on
Cărtărescu's own role as a high school teacher, Solenoid begins
with the mundane details of a diarist's life and quickly spirals
into a philosophical account of life, history, philosophy, and
mathematics. One character asks another: when you rush into the
burning building, will you save the newborn or the artwork? On a
broad scale, the novel’s investigations of other universes,
dimensions, and timelines reconcile the realms of life and art. The
novel is grounded in the reality of late 1970s/early 1980s
Communist Romania, including long lines for groceries, the
absurdities of the education system, and the misery of family life.
The text includes sequences in a tuberculosis sanatorium, an
encounter with an anti-death protest movement, a society of dream
investigators, and an extended visit to the miniscule world of dust
mites living on a microscope slide. Combining fiction with
autobiography and history— the scientists Nicolae Tesla and
George Boole, for example, appear alongside the Voynich
manuscript—Solenoid ruminates on the exchanges possible between
the alternate dimensions of life and art, as various, monstrous
dimensions erupt within the Communist present.
General
Imprint: |
Deep Vellum Publishing
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
May 2023 |
Authors: |
Mircea Cartarescu
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Translators: |
Sean Cotter
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Dimensions: |
227 x 157 x 36mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - With flaps
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Pages: |
672 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-64605-202-8 |
Categories: |
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General
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LSN: |
1-64605-202-1 |
Barcode: |
9781646052028 |
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