Rambling Raconteur | Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu 🇷🇴 (Influences, Analysis, Criticism) @ramblingraconteur1616 | Uploaded February 2023 | Updated October 2024, 13 minutes ago.
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: youtu.be/7cWEo3Rv6qs
Água Viva by Clarice Lispector, my discussion: youtu.be/5v6fB43ZlSA
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: youtu.be/Nb26nV_ysOk
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: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwV-9DG53NDxU337smpTwm6sef4x-SCLv
#booktube
#mirceacartarescu
#surrealism
#solenoid
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: youtu.be/7cWEo3Rv6qs
Água Viva by Clarice Lispector, my discussion: youtu.be/5v6fB43ZlSA
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: youtu.be/Nb26nV_ysOk
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: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwV-9DG53NDxU337smpTwm6sef4x-SCLv
#booktube
#mirceacartarescu
#surrealism
#solenoid
