Schattenfroh
A thousand pages of German memory, guilt and paternal authority, called untranslatable right up until somebody translated it. Admirers and detractors both invoke Solenoid.
Michael Lentz wrote a formally restless novel about memory, guilt and paternal authority that runs to roughly a thousand pages and was widely called untranslatable until somebody translated it. Admirers and detractors alike reach for Cartarescu Solenoid as the comparison. It is genuinely difficult, and whether it has a plot, or any humour, is something readers keep arguing about.
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Tyler Cowen
About one thousand pages, it is receiving buzz as a new novel to master, some are calling it “the new Solenoid” (not a positive for everyone, I do understand). I have tried parts in English and parts in German, but still I do not get it. Does it have a plot? Any humor?
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