{"product_id":"solenoid-paperback","title":"Solenoid - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMircea Cartarescu\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSean Cotter\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ethe\u003ci\u003e New Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Financial Times, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eWords Without Borders\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA highly-acclaimed master work of fiction from Cărtărescu, author of \u003ci\u003eBlinding\u003c\/i\u003e: an existence (and eventually a cosmos) created by forking paths.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on Cărtărescu's own role as a high school teacher, \u003ci\u003eSolenoid\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombining fiction with autobiography and history-- the scientists Nicolae Tesla and George Boole, for example, appear alongside the Voynich manuscript--\u003ci\u003eSolenoid\u003c\/i\u003e ruminates on the exchanges possible between the alternate dimensions of life and art, as various, monstrous dimensions erupt within the Communist present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMircea Cărtărescu 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 \u003ci\u003eBlinding\u003c\/i\u003e was published by Archipelago in Sean Cotter's English translation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSean 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 \u003ci\u003eCurl\u003c\/i\u003e and Nichita Stănescu's \u003ci\u003eWheel with a Single Spoke and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, which was awarded the Best Translated Book Award for Poetry. His translation of Magda Cârneci's \u003ci\u003eFEM\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the PEN Translation Award, was published by Deep Vellum in 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 672\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.9 x 8.9 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 25, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42692002840639,"sku":"9781646052028","price":29.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/4e2131b06324e186239ff5cc73b3ad9d.webp?v=1764993901","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/solenoid-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}