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Cargando... AN Instance of the Fingerpost (1997 original; edición 1999)por Iain Pears (Autor)
Información de la obraLa cuarta verdad por Iain Pears (1997)
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La historia se desarrolla en Oxford, por entonces uno de los centros universitarios más importantes de Europa. Robert Grove, un profesor del New College, muere envenenado y su sirvienta es acusada del crimen. Los cuatro testigos ofrecen su versión de los hechos, pero solo uno de ellos dice la verdad. Pero, ¿acaso existe una sola verdad? We are in England in the 1660s. Charles II has been restored to the throne following years of civil war and Cromwell's short-lived republic. Oxford is the intellectual seat of the country, a place of great scientific, religious, and political ferment. A fellow of New College is found dead in suspicious circumstances. A young woman is accused of his murder. We hear the story of the death from four witnesses: an Italian physician intent on claiming credit for the invention of blood transfusion; the son of an alleged Royalist traitor; a master cryptographer who has worked for both Cromwell and the king; and a renowned Oxford antiquarian. Each tells his own version of what happened. Only one reveals the extraordinary truth. En el Oxford del siglo XVII, un profesor del New College muere envenenado y su sirvienta es acusada del crimen. Los cuatro testigos, un gentilhombre veneciano fascinado por la anatomía, el hijo obsesionado por demostrar la inocencia del padre, un criptógrafo y matemático inglés y un conocido erudito y anticuario, ofrecen su versión de los hechos, pero sólo uno de ellos dice la verdad.
If you liked Umberto Eco's "Name of the Rose," you should run to buy Iain Pears' lavishly erudite historical mystery "An Instance of the Fingerpost."... If Eco's book was a sly demonstration of semiotics, the study of signs, Pear's is an exercise in theories of knowledge. Theological disputation, cryptography, religious dissent, medical experiments, moral philosophy, even the Turkish-Venetian war over Crete are all dealt with in what sometimes seems an entertaining encyclopedia of the second half of the 17th century.... When the denouement comes, it is with a new and final twist, one whose quality of surprise is the final proof of this talented author's almost infinite capacity to replace one understanding of things with another. Successful literary thrillers in the mold of Umberto Eco's ''Name of the Rose'' are the stuff of publishers' dreams, and in Pears's novel they may have found a near-perfect example of the genre. It is literary -- if that means intelligent and well written -- and for the reader who likes to be teased, who likes his plots as baroque and ingenious as possible, ''An Instance of the Fingerpost'' will not disappoint.... [T]wo, perhaps three, of the four narrators are men hard to like or care about. It was not until the final 150 pages that I found myself being moved. The feel of this last section is bolder, more imaginative, mysterious even, as though the novel had suddenly transcended itself and broken free of the trappings of the genre. ...a novel about deception and self-deception, about the scientific method and Jesuitical chicanery, above all about political expedience and religious transcendence. Every sentence in the book is as solid as brick -- and as treacherous as quicksand.... [Y]ou could reread the novel just to savor the subtle tricks of omission and misdirection.... Iain Pears has written an impressively original and audaciously imaginative intellectual thriller. Don't miss it. Rashomon meets The Name of the Rose in a triumphant triple-decker that knocks every speck of dust from the historical mystery. PremiosDistinciones
Durante la segunda mitad del siglo XVII, en los albores de la epistemologia moderna, la tension entre creencia y saber, fe religiosa y razon empirica, constituia el nucleo del debate intelectual.Partiendo del pensamiento de Francis Bacon, esta singular obra de Iain Pears es probablemente la novela de misterio mas erudita y entretenida desde la publicacion de El nombre de la rosa.La historia se desarrolla en Oxford, por entonces uno de los centros universitarios mas importantes de Europa. Robert Grove, un profesor del New College, muere envenenado y su sirvienta es acusada del crimen. Los cuatro testigos -Marco da Cola, un gentil hombre veneciano fascinado por la anatomia; Jack Wallis, el criptografo y matematico ingles mas importante antes de Newton; y Anthony Wood, conocido erudito y anticuario de Oxford- ofrecen su version de los hechos, pero solo uno de ellos dice la verdad. Pero, acaso existe una sola verdad'.Precedida de un notable exito en Inglaterra, Estados Unidos, Francia e Italia, donde no solo recibio excelentes criticas, sino que ademas ocupo los primeros puestos de las listas de los libros mas vendidos, La cuarta verdad presenta al lector un cuadro completo de las ideas filosoficas predominantes en la epoca. Pero el gran acierto del autor, atribuible sin duda a su afinada capacidad de narra, es haber recreado fielmente no solo los habitos y costumbres de un tiempo pasado, sino tambien la manera de pensar y de ver el mundo, sin lo cual seria imposible encontrar la solucion de la compleja trama. En suma, un autentico desafio para quienes buscan en una novela el estimulo intelectual ademas del placer de la lectura. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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