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Solenoid - Cartarescu, Mircea, and Cotter, Sean (Translated by)
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Based on Cartarescu'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 ...

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Solenoid 2024, Pushkin Press, London

ISBN-13: 9781805333197

Paperback

Solenoid 2022, Deep Vellum Publishing

ISBN-13: 9781646052028

Trade paperback