'It is relatively simple to translate content that is similar, which stems from similar cultures and worlds. This becomes infinitely harder as the two cultural identities are further apart.' 'They carry across a border psychological content, behavioral content, ancient culture, myths, identities which they translate into their own identity. Opening the event, Mircea Cartarescu made a few remarks about translation, saying that translators do not simply translate words from one language to another: Also attending were Lidia Bodea, head of Humanitas publishing house, critic Marius Chivu, and the founder of Humanitas, Gabriel Liiceanu. The event was attended by the writer, the translator, and Enrique Redel, head of the Impedimenta publishing house. Recently, the Humanitas Library at Cismigiu Gardens hosted an event on the publication of the Spanish edition of Cartarescu's Solenoid, published by the Madrid based publishing house Impedimenta shortly after its Romanian publication, translated by Marian Ochoa de Eribe, with an afterword by literary critic Marius Chivu.

Babelia, the cultural supplement of El Pais, calls it essential reading, while El Correo calls it a grand, exceptional, unforgettable book. Robert Saladrigas calls it his most important book, writing in La Vanguardia. Andres Ibanez calls it a masterpiece in ABC Cultural. It was declared best book of 2017 by La Vanguardia, El Periodico, The New York Times en espanol, and had rave reviews in many other periodicals. Right now in its second edition, Solenoid had excellent reviews from the Spanish literary press and criticism, as well as in South America. The panel, one of whose members was writer Alberto Manguel, himself a winner in 2017, also said that the narrative force of the writer managed to expand the limits of fiction, according to the El Pais daily. According to the jury, his works are destined to push forward the radical transformation of human achievement. In early April in Buenos Aires, Romanian writer Mircea Cartarescu became the winner of the prestigious Premio Formentor de las Letras 2018, one of the most important literary awards in the world, for lifetime achievement.

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