![]() This oneiric vein is extremely beautiful and appears to be inexhaustible. ![]() For the author of the diary, who is Mircea Cartarescu himself, as well as for all his fictional selves, dreams are the key opening the door to what lies beyond. In the novel, Morpheus, the god of dreams, appears to get some help from his father Hypnos, thus creating a truly special hypnotic, morphine-like effect in the reader as if the walls of our limiting world have cracked and a door to another world has opened.”Ĭritic Ioana Parvulescu has more: “In my opinion, the most suitable key to understand this book, which may be seen as a poetic and aesthetic manifesto more than Cartarescu’s other works, is the oneiric element, the dreams. ![]() The beauty of his attempt is that he does so after having demonstrated to himself that this is an impossible task. She adds: “It is a portrait of the artist as an adult man, when he questions everything, even art and writing, and when he struggles to solve the great riddle of the world. “Solenoid is unique even among Mircea Cartarescu’s works”, wrote the literary critic Ioana Parvulescu in her review of the book. The novel, which was published by Humanitas in 2015 and launched at the Gaudeamus Book Fair last November, has quickly become a cult book, enjoying an equally enthusiastic response from both the public and critics. ![]()
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