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Solenoid
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Based on Cărtărescu's own experience as a teacher, Solenoid submerges us in the mundane details of a diarist's life and spirals into an existential account of history, philosophy, and mathematics. Grounded in the reality of communist Romania, it grapples with frightening health care, the absurdities of...
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Solenoid
Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025.
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Based on Cărtărescu's own experience as a teacher, Solenoid submerges us in the mundane details of a diarist's life and spirals into an existential account of history, philosophy, and mathematics. Grounded in the reality of communist Romania, it grapples with frightening health care, the absurdities of the education system, and the struggles of family life while investigating other universes and forking paths.
In a surreal journey like no other, we visit a tuberculosis preventorium, an anti-death protest movement, a society of dream investigators, and a minuscule world of dust mites living on a microscope slide. Combining fiction with autobiography and history, Solenoid searches for escape routes through the alternate dimensions of life and art, as various monstrous realities erupt within the present.
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ISBN: 9781805333197
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 06 June 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Pushkin Press
Contributors:
- Translated by Sean Cotter
- Translated by Sean Cotter
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 640
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About the Author
Mircea Cărtărescu is a writer, professor, and journalist who has published more than twenty-five books. His work has received the Formentor Prize (2018), the Thomas Mann Prize (2018), the Austrian State Prize for Literature (2015), and the Vilenica Prize (2011), among many others. His work has been translated in twenty-three languages. His novel Blinding was published by Archipelago in Sean Cotter's English translation.
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