Solenoid - Mircea Cartarescu and from satirical epistolary tales

and from satirical epistolary tales to imaginative historical fiction

Babi Yar recounts the massacre of Jews and others at the ravine known as Babi Yar

plastering over cracks – the stories inhabiting them awaken

Mephistopheles

is at once a coming-of-age novel

Solenoid - Mircea Cartarescu and from satirical epistolary talesBased on Cartarescu's own experience as a teacher, Solenoid submerges us in the mundane details of a diarist's life and spirals into an existential account of history, philosophy and mathematics. Grounded in the reality of communist Romania, it grapples with frightening health care, the absurdities of the education system and the struggles of family life, while investigating other universes and forking paths. In a surreal journey like no other, we