: Published by Deep Vellum Publishing and translated by Sean Cotter , who also translated Cărtărescu’s award-winning Solenoid .
Theodoros , as Cărtărescu has hinted in interviews and public readings, is intended to be the . If Solenoid is the question ("What is the shape of reality?"), Theodoros is the ecstatic, terrifying answer: "Reality is a dream dreamed by a dying child, and you are that child." mircea cartarescu theodoros
On the desk, the stack of yellowed papers sat next to his notebook. Mircea picked up his pen. He didn't feel the block anymore. He understood that he wasn't the creator of the maze; he was the Minotaur trapped within it, and writing was the only way to widen the corridors. : Published by Deep Vellum Publishing and translated