5/30/2023 0 Comments Cartarescu solenoide![]() Parasites are much on his mind throughout this sprawling narrative. ![]() Now, at the beginning of the novel, he finds himself battling the lice that are epidemic among his students. “You can’t sow the world with dreams, because the world itself was a dream.” The 27-year-old protagonist of Romanian novelist Cărtărescu’s waking-dream book is a teacher who has a decidedly Dostoyevskian discontentment with the world: He wanted to be a writer, but one particularly sharp-tongued critic, calling a poem of his “a pointless whirlpool of words,” stopped his literary career in its tracks. A beguiling novel that plunges deep into subterranean conspiracy theories while questioning the nature of reality. ![]()
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