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Cargando... Earthly Powers (1980 original; edición 2012)por Anthony Burgess (Autor)
Información de la obraPoderes terrenales por Anthony Burgess (1980)
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Kenneth Tommey, escritor encumbrado y ya improductivo, agnóstico, homosexual y declarado apóstata, es requerido para que confirme una supuesta curación milagrosa de la que fue testigo hace medio siglo. El autor del prodigio es Carlo Campanati, elegido Papa con el nombre de Gregorio XVII y en proceso de canonización tras su fallecimiento.
Burgess sees artistic creation as man’s only god-like act, which is appropriate in a book whose twin themes are art and evil. Toomey, of course, is the most sterile kind of artist – pretentious and pitifully transparent – and Burgess has great parodic fun with his efforts: lush period epics, doomed libretti, catchy doggerel for stage musicals, a sentimental homosexual rewrite of the creation myth, even a theological work on the nature of evil (written in collusion with his relative Carlo Campanati, a Vatican high-up who later ‘makes Pope’). As Toomey begins the act of creation, he experiences a divine confidence; as the work takes shape, he feels himself already falling short, as earthly compromise and contingency closes in on the pristine dream. What is intended as radical and pure becomes tainted and familiar. In a sense, though, Earthly Powers belongs to Toomey as well as to Burgess, It is a considerable achievement, spacious and intricate in design, wonderfully sustained in its execution, and full of a weary generosity for the errant world it recreates. As a form, the long novel is inevitably flawed and approximate; and this book contains plenty of hollow places beneath its busy verbal surface. But whatever its human limits it shows an author who has reached the height of his earthly powers. ContieneTiene como estudio aTiene como guía de estudio aPremiosListas de sobresalientes
Kenneth Toomey, octagenario escritor, fue testigo presencial de un supuesto milagro del Papa Gregorio XVII, y ahora desean ratificar ese milagro. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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