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Solenoide mircea cartarescu5/25/2023 Across its 700 pages, it records a woozy topography of life, death, and literature, cataloging a world that it both intends to depict, and depart. Trying to describe it is difficult, because Solenoid is so dizzying in its execution that it is best understood from within, and anything less than the entire book requires willfully ignoring some of its fractalized genius. Of course, an optical illusion is best seen for oneself, and similarly, to do justice to a book like Solenoid would require a review as long as the novel in question. Like the Penrose Stairs, or other “impossible objects,” it is a challenge to even find an entry point to discuss Solenoid, because, like an optical illusion, it does not abide by the rules of our reality. They are an impossibility-at least within the confines of our world.įinally available in English, Mircea Cărtărescu’s Solenoid is a book that might be impossible to discuss without a veritable library of comparisons, because as most reviews of this book have noted, it’s exceedingly difficult to quickly sum up exactly what Cărtărescu has achieved. They are something that the mind can understand, while also recognizing the baseline unreality of the thing. The Penrose Stairs are a famous optical illusion dating back to the 1950s, depicting a square flight of steps that seem to ascend forever around a series of ninety degree turns.
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