Solenoid - Mircea Cărtărescu, Sean Cotter - translator torrent

Category: Adults, Contemporary, General Fiction, Novel
Language: EnglishKeywords: 21st Century Contemporary Drama Fiction Literary Fiction Literature Novels Roman Romania Romanian Literature
Written by Mircea Cărtărescu, Sean Cotter - translator
Read by Paul Boehmer
Format: MP3
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Unabridged
A highly acclaimed master work of fiction from Cartarescu, author of Blinding
Based on Cartarescu’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, Solenoid ruminates on the exchanges possible between the alternate dimensions of life and art, as various, monstrous dimensions erupt within the Communist present.
Length: 34 hrs and 4 mins
Release date: 02-14-23


A highly acclaimed master work of fiction from Cartarescu, author of Blinding

Based on Cartarescu’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, Solenoid ruminates on the exchanges possible between the alternate dimensions of life and art, as various, monstrous dimensions erupt within the Communist present.

Length: 34 hrs and 4 mins
Release date: 02-14-23