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Cargando... Aegypt (1987)por John Crowley
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Interesting and weird. The idea cannot support the novel. ( ) Pompous, overwrought, overwritten, overdone. This self-congratulatory piece of drivel even starts with a humble-brag in the form of a pre-amble, where the author 'humbly' apologizes that the has used many references and content from other works. Ironically none of it helps to understand the goal and supposed nuances of the book. That is, assuming you can figure out what a specific set of paragraphs refers to. Most of the time you will spend decoding the content of this book. Either because it is not clear that the author jumped in time, or place, or person. Or you need to move over to Wikipedia to understand a certain reference. I could write a short paragraph describing what the narrative is about but that wouldn't help anyone. Just because an author uses peculiar grammar and impenetrable language, doesn't mean he actually has something interesting to say. UPDATE May 23th, 2015: Just re-read this one, almost exactly a year since the first time. Still excellent. My favorite quote: The last wish: the only wish, in fact. That things could be, not as they are, but in some way different instead. Not better, really, or not better in all ways; a little larger maybe, more full of this and that, but mostly just different. New. That I, Pierce Moffett, could know that it had once been as it was and is that way no longer, that I could know it to have once been remade and so able to be remade again, all new, all other. Then perhaps this grief would at last be lifted from my heart. ORIGINAL REVIEW: May 18th, 2014: Both a profound meditation on the nature of history and a moving personal story. A balance that is almost impossible to get right. Usually, you like the ideas enough that the crappy story doesn't matter, or vice versa. But Crowley delivers both in equal measure. A rare treat. I wholeheartedly, unreservedly and (a little too) insistently recommend this book to any of my friends who are currently professors in subjects related to the history of ideas. There are one or two of you. ;) NB It's much more about the late medieval/early modern period than anything resembling the Egypt the title suggests. Regardless of your particular area of interest, you'll get a lot out of it. I pinky swear. I'm going to post some choice quotes in my tumblr shortly: http://untravel.tumblr.com
Affecting, cerebral, surprising and delightful, this extraordinary philosophical romance suggests an unlikely but thriving marriage between a writer like Anne Tyler and one such as Jorge Luis Borges. Pertenece a las seriesÆgypt Cycle (1) Pertenece a las series editorialesFantasy Masterworks (New design) Pocket (5679) PremiosListas de sobresalientes
El heroe de la historia, un fracasado profesor de historia llamado Pierce Moffett, tiene una obsesion, Aegypto, un misterioso pais oriental que se parece poco al Egipto del mundo cotidiano. Enraizado en parte en las fantasias infantiles de Pierce, y en parte en libros de alquimia, magia, astrologia e historia especulativa, Aegypto cobra una misteriosa y resplandeciente realidad propia. No tiene existencia terrenal y tangible, pero esta muy presente como historia paralela y secreta que ha venido desarrollandose desde hace siglos, todo el tiempo... Pierce conoce bien las novelas de Fellowes Kraft que cuentan la vida del doctor John Deed, el sabio astrologo y lector de espejos que vivio en la epoca de Isabel I. Cuando llega a Blackbury Jambs en busca de tranquilidad, se encuentra inevitablemente con otro lector de estas novelas, la atractiva Rosie Rasmussen. La realista historia de amor de una pareja de nuestro tiempo es de pronto parte de una mas amplia y compleja ficcion sobre la historia, la ficcion historica y la tradicion hermetica... No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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