Sometimes I get so hungry for writing like this. When I say ‘600-page Romanian surrealist novel…

Sometimes I get so hungry for writing like this. When I say &lsquo;600-page Romanian surrealist novel about a suicidally depressed schoolteacher who&rsquo;s an alternative-universe version of the author&rsquo;, you would probably make some assumptions about Solenoid – i.e. that it&rsquo;s dense, verbose, solipsistic and exhausting – that are pretty much correct. It often reads as though the…