Solenoid

Mircea Cărtărescu · b. 1956 · Romania

Originally Solenoid (Romanian)

Why it matters

A failed poet turned schoolteacher discovers a mysterious device beneath his Bucharest house and descends into a vast metaphysical labyrinth. Cărtărescu's most ambitious novel, a thousand-page dream-logic epic.

At a glance

A thousand-page dream-logic labyrinth of digression, mathematics, and metaphysics.