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by Mircea Cartarescu; Sean Cotter (Translator)

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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by the New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, The Financial Times, Words Without Borders


A highly-acclaimed master work of fiction from C?rt?rescu, author of Blinding: an existence (and eventually a cosmos) created by forking paths.

Based on C?rt?rescu'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-- the scientists Nicolae Tesla and George Boole, for example, appear alongside the Voynich manuscript--Solenoid ruminates on the exchanges possible between the alternate dimensions of life and art, as various, monstrous dimensions erupt within the Communist present.

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  • Title Solenoid
  • Author Mircea Cartarescu; Sean Cotter (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 672
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Deep Vellum Publishing
  • Date 2022-10-25
  • ISBN 9781646052028 / 1646052021
  • Weight 1.76 lbs (0.80 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.8 x 1.9 in (22.61 x 14.73 x 4.83 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Romania - History - 1944-1989
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2022004772
  • Dewey Decimal Code 859.334

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  • Kirkus Reviews, 10/15/2022, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 10/10/2022, Page 0

About the author

Mircea C?rt?rescu 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.

Sean Cotter is a translator and professor of literature and translation at the University of Texas at Dallas. A previous National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellow, Cotter is the translator of 11 books, including T.O. Bobe's Curl and Nichita St?nescu's Wheel with a Single Spoke and Other Poems, which was awarded the Best Translated Book Award for Poetry. His translation of Magda Crneci's FEM, a finalist for the PEN Translation Award, was published by Deep Vellum in 2021.

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