The text includes sequences in a tuberculosis sanatorium, an encounter with an anti-death protest movement, a society of dream investigators, and an extended visit to the minuscule world of dust mites living on a microscope slide.
The novel is grounded in the reality of Communist Romania in the late 1970s and early 1980s, including long lines for groceries, the absurdities of the education system, and the misery of family life. Its opening sentence: I have lice, again. On a broad scale, the novel's investigations of other universes, dimensions, and timelines reconcile the realms of life and art. 'That future is Solenoid, already one of our young century’s landmarks of fiction. Based on Cărtărescu's own experience as a high school teacher, Solenoid begins with the mundane details of a diarist's life and quickly spirals into a philosophical account of existence, history, philosophy, and mathematics. "From Mircea Cărtărescu, author of Blinding: an existence (and eventually a cosmos) created by forking paths.
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