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 minuscule world of dust mites living on a microscope slide. Based on Crtrescus own role as a high school teacher, Solenoid begins with the mundane details of a diarists life and quickly spirals into a philosophical. The novel is grounded in the reality of Communist Romania in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including long lines for groceries, the absurdities of the education system, and the misery of family life. A highly-acclaimed master work of fiction from Crtrescu, author of Blinding: an existence (and eventually a cosmos) created by forking paths. Based on Crtrescus own experience as a high. Mircea Crtrescu is one of the great contemporary writers and this is. It would be easy to say that Crtrescu’s work is Kafkaesque. From Mircea Crtrescu, author of Blinding: an existence (and eventually a cosmos) created by forking paths. This is a huge book so it is only possible to give a brief flavour of what it contains. In Blinding Mircea Crtrescu manages to create his own fabulous reality which is as weird, colourful and enigmatic as Hieronymus Boschs triptych The Garden of Earthly Delights.

On a broad scale, the novel's investigations of other universes, dimensions, and timelines reconcile the realms of life and art. Though, it is his brilliant, clear and disquieting prose that fills you quite immediately with a desire to explore a world that seems to be collapsing, slowly, and with such sharp clarity, you simply can’t stop reading. Based on Cărtărescu's own experience as a high school teacher, Solenoid begins with the mundane details of a diarist's life and quickly spirals into a philosophical account of existence, history, philosophy, and mathematics. An existence (and eventually a cosmos) created by forking paths. 'From Mircea Cărtărescu, author of Blinding: an existence (and eventually a cosmos) created by forking paths. A highly-acclaimed master work of fiction from Cartarescu, author of Blinding.

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