The Two Trick Pony
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Translated by Sean Cotter
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ABOUT THE BOOK
A monumental novel from the author of Blinding, drawing on Cărtărescu’s own years as a schoolteacher in Bucharest.
Solenoid begins with the mundane details of a diarist’s life and quickly spirals into a philosophical account of history, mathematics and the nature of reality. It is grounded in late-1970s and early-1980s Communist Romania – the queues for groceries, the absurdities of the school system, the misery of family life – but the city keeps opening onto other dimensions: a tuberculosis sanatorium, a protest movement against death, a society of dream investigators, an extended visit to the tiny world of dust mites on a microscope slide.
Mixing fiction with autobiography and history, from Nikola Tesla to the Voynich manuscript, it is a dazzling exploration of the borders between life and art.
Genre: Literary Fiction · Speculative Fiction · Books in Translation
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