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Cargando... Matrix: A Novel (2021 original; edición 2021)por Lauren Groff (Autor)
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Lauren Groff's Matrix is an inspiring novel that truly demonstrates the power women wield, regardless of the era. It has sisterhood, love, war, sex — and many graphic deaths, all entangled in a once-forgotten abbey in the English countryside. Matrix introduces a warlike poet-nun, based on the real medieval author Marie de France, who challenges the Catholic church and the very foundations of patriarchy — while also exploring womanhood and unbridled sexuality....Abbess Marie, venerated and ambitious, is driven by a mission to achieve greatness, something many women can identify with today. Matrix exposes the complexity of being a woman living in a world where men make all the rules, regardless of the era. But it also may leave you wondering whether this is a story about one woman's feminist aspirations — or her overzealous ambition. Lauren Groff is one of the most beloved and critically acclaimed fiction writers in the country. And now that we’ve endured almost two years of quarantine and social distancing, her new novel about a 12th-century nunnery feels downright timely....When “Matrix” opens, Marie, all of 17 years old, is appointed prioress of a dilapidated abbey, founded centuries earlier, where a few nuns remain scavenging for food. The beautiful queen, whom Marie adores, frames this assignment as a great honor, but the young woman knows she’s “being thrown away like rubbish . . . sent into her living death alone.” ...Unable to leave and unwilling to fail, Marie brings her considerable physical and mental powers to bear on the abbey’s financial and managerial problems...inevitably, her efforts will conflict with the masculine tropes and rituals embedded in the Roman Catholic faith. How far she can push back against that outer world without provoking forces arrayed against her generates much of the novel’s suspense. Groff is a heavily allusive writer whose narratives typically carry a freight of sophisticated references. In her new novel, “Matrix,” the work of Marie de France — the 12th-century poet who leavened her traditional Breton lais with a little fairy dust — provides Groff a literary springboard into a past whose features offer a mirror to our own time....Female ambition and power are the central themes of “Matrix,” a math-y title that’s hard to pry off the science fiction film franchise. But the word originates from “mater,” which is Latin for mother, and thus associated with the Virgin, whose second apparition reveals Eve as the “first matrix.” In Marie’s exalted perception, her womb brought death into the world; and without Eve there could be no Mary, “no salvatrix,” and thus no deliverance....From its inauspicious beginning in the person of a sullen, selfish, godless teenager banished by an empress to perish in squalor, Marie’s transformation is that of a woman upon whom greatness is not thrust but slowly gathers. An orphan entrusted with the lives of others, calling herself their mother, gradually, by force of will, by dint of hard experience, becomes exactly that. As she reflects on her deathbed, “greatness was not the same as goodness”; but it does make for a more compelling story line. Groff (Florida) fashions a boldly original narrative based on the life and legend of 12th-century poet Marie de France. After Marie is banished to a poverty-stricken British abbey by Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine at age 17 in 1158, she transforms from a reluctant prioress into an avid abbess.... Transcendent prose and vividly described settings bring to life historic events, from the Crusades to the papal interdict of 1208. Groff has outdone herself with an accomplishment as radiant as Marie’s visions. PremiosDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
Un retrato de la indomable Mari a de Francia, por la autora que deslumbro a Barack Obama y a la cri tica mundial, ganadora de los premios Paul Bowles, PEN/O. Henry y Pushcart UNO DE LOS MEJORES LIBROS DEL AN O SEGU N THE TIMES Siempre mordaz y bromista, [...] resuelta, con ese halo que desprenden las ungidas con el don de ser la ma s avispada de la clase y, encima, tener estilo y mejor melena. [...] La escritora que vio venir las neurosis y males de nuestra era ha apostado por un libro sobre monjas. Que nadie inicie un bostezo. Ma s que beatas ansiosas de fe, bajo su pluma, estas hermanas parecen vibrantes amazonas: calientes, despiertas, conquistadoras .Noelia Rami rez, Babelia Descendiente de una larga dinasti a de guerreras y cruzadas, Marie es demasiado ruda y rebelde para la vida palaciega, por lo que acaba siendo expulsada de la corte y enviada a los lodazales de Inglaterra para que asuma el rol de priora de una abadi a venida a menos. Al llegar, encuentra un panorama desolador donde reinan la inanicio n y el chismorreo. Marie an ora la comodidad de la corte francesa, y tambie n a su amante secreta, Cecily. Sin embargo, al poco tiempo se dara cuenta de que sus nuevas obligaciones le otorgan ma s poder del que jama s habri a imaginado, un acceso a los conocimientos sobre plantas medicinales y su propio sello de lacre para la correspondencia, que le permitira cartearse confidencialmente con quien quiera. Tras Florida, finalista del National Book Award, Lauren Groff vuelve a sorprendernos con el retrato de Mari a de Francia, un personaje fascinante y poco conocido de la historia que se ha convertido en icono femenino. La cri tica ha dicho... Escrita en una prosa rica en ima genes y sensual, la novela se aproxima desde la imaginacio n a un personaje enigma tico y, a su vez, reivindica las bondades de un liderazgo femenino empa tico y no autoritario .Jordi Nopca, Ara Fascinante. Apuntadi simo .Elena Me ndez, La Voz de Galicia Excepcional. [...] Un relato precioso sobre el poder, la ambicio n y la sensualidad femenina, y sobre la devocio n a lo superior .Xavier Graset, El Punt Avui Una novela inspiradora que demuestra el poder que han sabido ejercer las mujeres. [...] Un dominio de la palabra y un ritmo magistrales, [...] una narracio n altamente adictiva .NPR Una celebracio n bellamente escrita del deseo y la creatividad femeninos, con una heroi na formidable .The Guardian Una escritora de enorme talento, capaz de una ha bil pirotecnia a la altura de los desafi os que plantea .The New York Times Book Review El trabajo ma s atrevido de la autora: [...] su suntuosa pero fresca narracio n se abre camino por una abadi a medieval en busca de violencia, humor, empoderamiento y espiritualidad, y forja algo convincente, extran o y reconocible para el ojo moderno .Philadelphia Inquirer Una obra audaz y emocionante que pone de manifiesto la imaginacio n indo mita e ilimitada de Groff .Star Tribune Inolvidable, exta tico, radiante, here tico .USA Today El drama de monjas medievales que no sabi as que necesitabas .Vulture Una obra ingeniosa e inteligente que perdurara .The Boston Globe De lectura obligada .The Washington Post Pa ginas incandescentes. [...] Una obra brillante de imaginacio n y talento .Esquire Un texto cautivador .Mi riam Di ez Bosch, El Punt Avui No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Tras Florida, finalista del National Book Award, Lauren Groff vuelve a sorprendernos con el retrato de María de Francia, un personaje fascinante y poco conocido de la historia que se ha convertido en icono femenino.