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Isabel Dalhousie es una filósofa de mediana edad que no necesita trabajar para vivir gracias a su herencia. Su existencia transcurre tranquilamente en Edimburgo, entre sus colaboraciones con una revista filosófica semi desconocida, sus clases en la universidad y su sobrina de veintitantos años, quien es su más querida compañía. Sólo tiene un pequeño defecto: meterse en aquéllo que no le importa. Una noche, tras asistir a un concierto de música clásica, ve como desde el palco situado encima del suyo, un hombre se precipita al vacío. Por curiosidad, se empieza a interesar por la identidad de este chico y va descubriendo demasiadas cosas sospechosas como para que ella se pueda creer que se trata de un simple accidente.… (más)
Isabel Dalhousie es una filósofa de mediana edad que no necesita trabajar para vivir gracias a su herencia. Su existencia transcurre tranquilamente en Edimburgo, entre sus colaboraciones con una revista filosófica semi desconocida, sus clases en la universidad y su sobrina de veintitantos años, quien es su más querida compañía. Sólo tiene un pequeño defecto: meterse en aquéllo que no le importa. Una noche, tras asistir a un concierto de música clásica, ve como desde el palco situado encima del suyo, un hombre se precipita al vacío. Por curiosidad, se empieza a interesar por la identidad de este chico y va descubriendo demasiadas cosas sospechosas como para que ella se pueda creer que se trata de un simple accidente.
Isabel is fond of problems, and sometimes she becomes interested in problems that are, quite frankly, none of her business. This may be the case when Isabel sees a young man plunge to his death from the upper circle of a concert hall in Edinburg. Despite the advice of her housekeeper, Grace, who has been raised in the values of traditional Edinburg, and her niece, Cat. who, if you ask Isabel, is dating the wrong man, Isabel is determined to find the truth -if indeed there is one- behind the man's death. The resulting moral labyrinth might have stymied even Kant. And then there is the unsatisfactory turn of events in Cat's love life that must be attended to.
Isabel Dalhousie, una rica filósofa de mediana edad que no necesita trabajar para vivir gracias a una cuantiosa herencia, tiene el defecto de fisgonear en la vida de los demás hasta límites insospechados. Una noche, en un concierto de música clásica, ve cómo un hombre se precipita al vacío desde el anfiteatro justo encima de su palco. Por curiosidad, empieza a indagar en la vida del joven y descubre demasiados trazos que la invitan a sospechar que la caída no se trata de un simple accidente. Alexander McCall Smith ha vendido más de 5 millones de ejemplares de sus anteriores títulos. Ésta es la primera entrega de la serie protagonizada por Isabel Dalhousie, que será llevada a la pequeña pantalla por la BBC. ( )
Her penchant for conducting moral arguments with herself is well-developed, but it can be less than riveting for the reader. Why does Isabel find herself drawn into the affairs of others? Is it because there is some moral imperative leading her to do so? Is it because man has an obligation to his fellow man? (Or is it because ladies who like to investigate crimes can be ladies who sell many, many books?)
...this book is a clear demonstration of Mr. McCall Smith's own philosophy: that there is wisdom in inviting readers into a world of kindness, gentility and creature comforts. Offer the literary equivalent of herbal tea and a cozy fire. They'll come back for more.
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
This is for James and Marcia Childress
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Isabel Dalhousie saw the young man fall from the edge of the upper circle, from the gods.
Citas
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Pickled onions had nothing to do with moral imagination, but were important in their own quiet, vinegary way, supposed Isabel.
When the beautiful died, it was the same as when the less well blessed died; that was obvious. But why did it seem more tragic that Rupert Brooke, or Byron for that matter, should die, than other young men? Perhaps it was because we love the beautiful more, or because Death's momentary victory is all the greater. Nobody, he says, smiling, is too beautiful not to be taken by me.
She wondered how many of these people were solitary by choice, and how many were alone because nobody had ever come into their lives and relieved them of their loneliness.
The answer, she had concluded, was that this had nothing to do with happiness, which came upon you like the weather, determined by your personality.
"I can't imagine what I would do in a secret life, if I had one to lead. What is there to do that people really disapprove of these days? Nobody seems to blink an eyelid over affairs. And convicted murderers write books."
The story of Jekyll and Hyde was conceived in Edinburgh, of course, and made perfect sense there.
"I was a fund manager in an earlier life, I suspect," said Paul. "And presumably that's what I'll be in the next."
We do not like those who are completely available, who make themselves over to us entirely. They crowd us out. They make us feel uneasy.
So that, thought Isabel, was that. The whole edifice of philosophical debate on the fine nuances of truth telling is ultimately undermined by a simple biological process. Tell a fib and you go red in the face.
Sometimes one just does things—ridiculous things—that one can't explain.
Good manners depended on paying moral attention to others; it required one to treat them with complete moral seriousness, to understand their feelings and their needs. Some people, the selfish, had no inclination to do this, and it showed. They were impatient with those whom they thought did not count: the old, the inarticulate, the disadvantaged. The person with good manners, however, would always listen to such people and treat them with respect.
manners were the basic building block of civil society.
It was the obsessive dieters who were unhappy and anxious.
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So she reached out and took his hand, which she held until they were ready to walk back up the path.
Isabel Dalhousie es una filósofa de mediana edad que no necesita trabajar para vivir gracias a su herencia. Su existencia transcurre tranquilamente en Edimburgo, entre sus colaboraciones con una revista filosófica semi desconocida, sus clases en la universidad y su sobrina de veintitantos años, quien es su más querida compañía. Sólo tiene un pequeño defecto: meterse en aquéllo que no le importa. Una noche, tras asistir a un concierto de música clásica, ve como desde el palco situado encima del suyo, un hombre se precipita al vacío. Por curiosidad, se empieza a interesar por la identidad de este chico y va descubriendo demasiadas cosas sospechosas como para que ella se pueda creer que se trata de un simple accidente.
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