Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu 🇷🇴 (Influences, Analysis, Criticism)

A discussion of the high points in Cartarescu’s surrealist, maximalist, not quite autofiction, the imperfections, and the many influences. 0:00 Introduction 5:53 Imperfect Influence 10:32 Malignant Misogyny 14:06 Authenticity? 15:52 Grand Questions 17:30 Reading/Final Thoughts 22:46 Recommended if you like Recommended if you like: Diaries of Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis by Kafka Memoirs of my Nervous Illness by Daniel Paul Schreber Chants de Maldoror by Comte de Lautreamont (Isidore Ducasse) Abel and Cain by Gregor von Rezzori An Ermine in Czernopol by Gregor von Rezzori Stories of Jorge Luis Borges, particularly Garden of Forking Paths, The Aleph, The Library of Babel, Death and the Compass, and Tlön, Uqbar, and Orbius Tertius, my discussion on Borges and Gnosticism:    • Gnosticism in Borges: Secret Knowledge and...   Água Viva by Clarice Lispector, my discussion:    • Água Viva by Clarice Lispector 🇧🇷   The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud The Portable Jung Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift Ava by Carole Maso The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami, my discussion:    • Kafka on the Shore by Murakami Haruki (a S...   Larva, a Midsummer Night’s Babel by Julián Ríos Dr. No by Percival Everett Entry into the Realm of Reality from the Flower Ornament Scripture (Avatamsaka Sutra) The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton Stories of Edgar Allan Poe The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire The Hidden Reality by Brian Greene Visual Group Theory and Abstract Algebra:    • Visual Group Theory   #booktube #mirceacartarescu #surrealism #solenoid