“Maybe the game is won by the person who suddenly understands its absurdity and throws it to the ground, the one who cuts through the knot while everyone else is trying to unravel it. Mailing List discussion of the novel (haven’t listened to this yet, but I plan to once I finish the novel). Beyond the Zero podcast interview with Sean Cotter.E un eveniment care-ti taie oarecum viata in doua: cine va citi cartea va inceta sa mai fie un cititor de rand. Solenoid is very readable despite being a dense novel of ideas. Solenoid De (autor): Mircea Cartarescu 5 (1 reviews) Primul meu gand, odata-ncheiata lectura, a fost sa-mi scriu pe cartea de vizita. I’ll be at this for a while, but it won’t be a slog. After the first few chapters, I started slowing myself down, taking the time to make notes and explore some of the ideas (and vocabulary) that were new to me. A fractal-shattered shaker of Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster straight to the dome of twenty-first-century letters.” “If Handke and Knausgaard dropped acid together in a Bucharest exterminator’s abandoned shop with only Kafka’s Metamorphosis for company, this is the sort of autofiction their combined brain might then produce. To this end, I will use a specific extension of career construction theory in the field of literary research that focuses on the notion of a ‘late-career novel’. This essay analyses the most recent novel of Romanian author Mircea Crtrescu (Solenoid, 2015). One podcast describes it as the “ greatest surrealist novel ever written” while one of the blurbs on the back of the novel gushes: The Poetics of the Hypercycle in Mircea Crtrescu's 'Solenoid'. Some of what I read about the book while I was sniffing around trying to decide if I wanted to bounce its 638 pages around in my brain for the next several weeks seemed over the top. Sean Cotter’s translation is fantastic (though I can’t speak to how true it is to the original Romanian). I’m only a hundred pages in, but it is exceeding the hype. After reading multiple rave reviews of Mircea Cărtărescu’s Solenoid on social media, I finally broke down and purchased a copy. The main quality of Crtrescus solenoid is an effect of levitation, which occurs when the narrator is in his bedroom and makes love to his lover, Irina.

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