It was received positively by critics and prompted comparisons to Borges and Kafka due to its absurdist plot.
Writing for the New York Times, Dustin Illingworth called the novel "an instant classic of literary body horror" and praised Sean Cotter's translation.
[7] In the Los Angeles Review of Books, Ben Hooyman praised the book's labyrinthine nature and length, contrasting it with Borges's and Kafka's significantly shorter stories, but also wrote "there are moments when Solenoid revisits a motif too many times, or when a lull drags on a little too long".
[8] Nicholas Dames, in a favorable review for the Spring 2023 edition of n+1, called the novel "one of our young century’s landmarks of fiction".
[11] The novel won the 2024 International Dublin Literary Award[12] with judge Anton Hur commenting "By turns wildly inventive, philosophical, and lyrical, with passages of great beauty, Solenoid is the work of a major European writer who is still relatively little known to English-language readers".