“Solenoid” by Mircea Cărtărescu

Translated by Sean Cotter

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First published by Humanitas, 2015

Published by Deep Vellum, 2022

Paperback, 672 pages

ISBN: 0140110879

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Today Episode in Video: PENDING

Today’s Episode in Text: PENDING

Sections:

00:00 Intro & Preamble

03:19 The Find

06:16 Publication and Translation

11:51 The Fall

19:58 The Exhumed Reality: Taxonomic Considerations

33:04 The Borina Solenoid (Plot)

39:02 Flatland and the Fourth Dimension: An Intertextual Investigation

01:00:50 Mail Call

01:02:30 The Other Side

01:16:49 Iron and Crystal

01:34:10 Diaries, Dreams, and Departures

01:54:31 Afterword

Readings from p. 1, 32, 37, 39, 42, 70, 71, 79, 98, 107, 108, 156, 164, 209, 212, 356, 378, 379, 434, 445, 456, 487, 492, 596, 673, 675, ∞

Secondary Resources:

1. Solenoid – The Untranslated Review: http://bit.ly/3UAYxAa

2. Blinding Vol 1 – Video Review: http://bit.ly/3UUx6RJ

3. Poesia esencial: http://bit.ly/3tsGpwD

4. Romanian Literature Now – Solenoid: http://bit.ly/3tt28Ve

5. Nicolae Manolescu: http://bit.ly/3GdUR3h

6. De Reactor Interview via The Untranslated: http://bit.ly/3AeML6t

7. The Dimensions of Solenoid (II): http://bit.ly/3EDQTjj

8. Your Surrealist Literature Starter Kit: http://bit.ly/3tvtNF3

9. Maica Domnului Google Pin: http://bit.ly/3UWnGW3

10. Solenoid Coil: http://bit.ly/3hECxWJ

11. Smale-Williams Solenoid: http://bit.ly/3E8f0oH

12. Edwin Abbott – Flatland .pdf: http://bit.ly/3Epul4v

13. Il Manifesto Interview: http://bit.ly/3Gi1KjU

14. Arnolfini Portrait: http://bit.ly/3UQuuEu

15. Trompe l’Oeil: http://bit.ly/3O0GQb3

16. Escaping Criticism: http://bit.ly/3txmv3m

17. Blackwood – A Victim of Higher Space .pdf: http://bit.ly/3WRPHQa

18. A Victim of Higher Space Review: http://bit.ly/3AcUoue

19. The Poetics of the Hypercycle: http://bit.ly/3E2GhZD

20. Seeking the Doom of Self-Annihilation: http://bit.ly/3Gj29Tr

21. From Blinding to Solenoid: http://bit.ly/3hJq6IY

22. Socialist Paradise or Tower of Total Surveillance: http://bit.ly/3huAnZw

23. Hinton Cubes: http://bit.ly/3WYGUvZ

24. DeWitt – Moral Authority: http://bit.ly/3E1XhPE

25. Balcanu – Real and fantastic Bucharest: http://bit.ly/3g5p21O