Parasites are much on his mind throughout this sprawling narrative.
Now, at the beginning of the novel, he finds himself battling the lice that are epidemic among his students. “You can’t sow the world with dreams, because the world itself was a dream.” The 27-year-old protagonist of Romanian novelist Cărtărescu’s waking-dream book is a teacher who has a decidedly Dostoyevskian discontentment with the world: He wanted to be a writer, but one particularly sharp-tongued critic, calling a poem of his “a pointless whirlpool of words,” stopped his literary career in its tracks. A beguiling novel that plunges deep into subterranean conspiracy theories while questioning the nature of reality.
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