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The novel is framed as the private manuscript of an unnamed narrator—a failed writer and frustrated primary school teacher in 1980s Bucharest.
Mircea Cărtărescu’s Solenoid (Romanian: Solenoid, 2015; English translation by Sean Cotter, Deep Vellum, 2022) is a sprawling, autofictional, surrealist novel about a Romanian high‑school teacher whose private notebooks spiral into philosophical, metaphysical and quasi‑scientific digressions. The title’s “solenoid” functions both as a literal device in the book (an electromagnetic coil in the narrator’s house) and as a metaphoric engine that generates the novel’s loops, fields and alternate realities. mircea cartarescu solenoid pdf