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Solenoid (Paperback)
Mircea Cartarescu; Translated by Sean Cotter
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R768
R599
Discovery Miles 5 990
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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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.
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Nostalgia (Paperback)
Mircea Cartarescu; Translated by Julian Semilian
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R314
R257
Discovery Miles 2 570
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'Cartarescu is one of the great literary voices of Central Europe'
Olga Tokarczuk, Nobel Prize winner and author of Flights 'A
Danubian Narnia. . . his writing delivers a rainbow-hued riot of
fantasy, imagination and invention' Boyd Tonkin, Spectator A
dreamlike novel of memory and magic, Nostalgia turns the dark world
of Communist Bucharest into a place of strange enchantments. Here a
man plays increasingly death-defying games of Russian Roulette, a
child messiah works his magic in the tenements, a young man
explores gender boundaries, a woman relives her youth and an
architect becomes obsessed with the sound of his new car horn -
with unexpected consequences. Blending reality and symbolism, time
and myth, this is a cult masterwork from Romania's most celebrated
writer.
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Nostalgia (Spanish, Paperback)
Mircea Cartarescu; Translated by Marian Ochoa De Eribe; Introduction by Edmundo Paz-Soldan
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R774
Discovery Miles 7 740
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Shifting viewpoints, magic realism, and narrative mastery are all
integral parts of "Nostalgia," Romanian author and perennial Nobel
Prize favorite Mircea Cartarescu's masterpiece. The book is
comprised of five unrelated stories: "The Roulette Player," in
which a desperately unlucky man manages to amass a fortune by
taking part in dangerous games of Russian roulette; "Mentardy"
narrates the travails of a prepubescent messiah who loses his
powers with the advent of his sexuality; "The Twins," a brave
exploration of youthful rage; "REM," in which a middle-aged woman
falls in love with a university student in a nightmarish Bucharest;
and "The Architect," in which a man who cannot silence his car horn
becomes obsessed with sound--an obsession that will have cosmic
consequences. Readers eager to acquaint themselves with one of the
most important voices in modern European literature will not want
to miss this sophisticated, haunting collection of stories.
"Puntos de vista variables, el realismo magico y la maestria
narrativa son facetas integras de "Nostalgia," la obra maestra del
autor rumano y favorito perenne para el Premio Nobel, Mircea
Cartarescu. El libro consta de cinco cuentos no relacionados: "El
ruletista," en el que un hombre al que nunca le ha sonreido la
suerte hace fortuna participando en letales sesiones de ruleta
rusa; "El Mendebil," el cual narra los infortunios de un mesias
impuber que pierde sus poderes magicos con el advenimiento de su
propia sexualidad; "Los gemelos," una bizarra exploracion de la ira
juvenil; "REM," en el cual una mujer de mediana edad se enamora de
un estudiante de instituto en una Bucarest pesadillesca; y "El
arquitecto," en el cual un hombre que no logra silenciar el claxon
de su coche se obsesiona con el sonido--una obsesion que tendra
consecuencias cosmicas. El lector interesado en conocer a una de
las voces mas importantes de la literatura europea moderna no se
querra perder esta sofisticada, inolvidable coleccion de
historias."
Banned for years in Romania, this brilliant narrative of European
literature tells the unlikely story of an unlucky man who,
surprisingly, makes a fortune in deadly sessions of Russian
roulette. Feverish crowds get in line to participate in the
ceremonies of death and redemption that give way to mass hysteria.
This novel attempts to explain how a dull man ends up as someone
seemingly immortal and impregnable when, in fact, he only breeds
the desperate spirit of self-destruction. "Prohibido durante anos
en Rumania, este relato brillante de la literatura europea cuenta
la historia poco probable de un hombre de mala suerte que,
sorprendentemente, gana una fortuna en sesiones mortales de la
ruleta rusa. Multitudes febriles se ponen en fila para participar
en las ceremonias de muerte y redencion que ceden a la histeria
colectiva. Esta novela trata de explicar como un hombre aburrido
termina siendo una persona aparentemente ""inmortal e invulnerable
cuando, en realidad, solo engendra el espiritu desesperado de la
autodestruccion."
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