Name: Solenoid (in German)
Price: 382.00 ZAR
Availability: InStock
Author: Mircea Cartarescu
ISBN: 9783442771158

Type

Physical Book

Author

Mircea Cartarescu

Publisher

Btb Taschenbuch

Year

2023

Language

German

Pages

912

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.5 x 13.6 cm

ISBN13

9783442771158

Solenoid (in German)

Mircea Cartarescu (Author) · Btb Taschenbuch · Paperback

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Synopsis "Solenoid (in German)"

Genial, verrückt, groß: Ein monumentales Stück Weltliteratur Ein junger Mann erntet Hohn und Spott in seinem Literaturkreis, als er dort seinen Text vorträgt. Aus ihm wird nicht wie erhofft ein gefeierter Schriftsteller, sondern ein Lehrer in der Vorstadt von Bukarest. Als dieser namenlose Erzähler jedoch ein Haus in Form eines Schiffes kauft, gerät er in den Bannkreis des Solenoids, einer Art riesiger Magnetspule, deren Gravitationskraft alles in die Höhe hebt, was in ihr Umfeld gerät - Menschen, Gegenstände, ja die Wirklichkeit selbst. Genial, verrückt, groß: Mit seinem monumentalen Roman hat Mircea Cartarescu erneut Weltliteratur geschaffen

Mircea Cartarescu

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Mircea Cartarescu was born on June 1, 1956 in Bucharest, Romania into a middle-class family. From an early age, he showed a strong interest in literature and music, influenced by the counterculture of the 60s and 70s. He pursued his studies at the University of Bucharest, in the faculty of letters where he earned a PhD with a fascinating thesis on Romanian postmodernism. He has been a university professor, editor, and contributor to literary magazines, as well as an active member of the Romanian PEN Club and the European Cultural Parliament.

He began his literary career as a poet in 1978 and published his first book, Faurir, vitrin, fotografii (1980), which earned him the Romanian Writers' Union Award. His work is characterized by lyrical, dreamlike, and experimental prose, in which the boundary between reality and dream blurs. He has explored themes such as memory, identity, recent Romanian history, and the transformative power of literature.

He was awarded the prestigious Formentor Prize for Literature, and has received awards of the importance of the Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding, the Gregor von Rezzori Prize, the Thomas Mann Prize, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature, and the FIL Prize for Literature in Romance Languages. His texts have been translated into more than a dozen languages.

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