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"Bluma Lennon, distinguished professor of Latin American literature at Cambridge, is hit by a car while crossing the street, immersed in a volume of Emily Dickinson's poems. Several months after her untimely demise, a package arrives for her from Argentina - a copy or a Conrad novel, encrusted in cement and inscribed with a mysterious dedication. Bluma's successor in the department (and a former lover) travels to Buenos Aires to track down the sender, one Carlos Brauer, who turns out to have disappeared." "The last thing known is that he moved to a remote stretch of the Uruguayan coastline and built himself a house out of his enormous and valuable library. How he got there, and why, is the subject of this seductive novel - part mystery, part social comedy, and part examination of all the many forms of bibliomania." "Illustrated by Peter Sis, The House of Paper is a tribute to the strange and passionate relationship between people and their books."--BOOK JACKET.… (más)
bluepiano: The only connection between an earnest Edwardian novella and a wistful Latin American one is that the former plays an essential part in the latter. Shadow Line is the most accessible Conrad that I've read and though it's short on subtlety it's a rattling good story; Paper House has a melancholy charm.… (más)
“Los libros cambian el destino de las personas”, señala al inicio La casa de papel. Bluma Lennon, profesora en Cambridge, es atropellada fatalmente mientras caminaba leyendo. Pocos días después llega a su despacho un paquete desde Uruguay con un libro extrañamente rebozado con una capa de cemento. Un colega argentino lo recibe intrigado: ¿quién lo envía? ¿qué razón hay para que llegue en esas condiciones? ¿qué significado debía tener para Bluma? Aprovechando el retorno vacacional a Buenos Aires, viaja a Montevideo en busca de respuestas, y allí se encuentra con la historia de Carlos Brauer y su obsesiva pasión por los libros que pueblan su inmensa biblioteca. Publicada por primera vez en 2004, Mondadori la reedita ahora con ilustraciones de Peter Sís. Un buen homenaje para una obra que se ha convertido en poco tiempo en una pieza de referencia para todo amante de los libros.
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
In memory of the great Joseph.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
One day in the spring of 1998, Bluma Lennon bought a secondhand copy of Emily Dickinson's poems in a bookshop in Soho, and as she reached the second poem on the first street corner, she was knocked down by a car.
Citas
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
It is often much harder to get rid of books than it is to acquire them. They stick to us in that pact of need and oblivion we make with them, witnesses to a moment in our lives we will never see again.
The truth is that in the end the size of a library does matter.
"How many books do you have?" I asked
"To tell the truth, I've given up counting. But I think there must be around eighteen thousand. I've been buying books here and there ever since I can remember. To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books."
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
I bade Bluma farewell. As the illustration of the ship and the fishes began to dissolve, I saluted the great Joseph and turned for home.
"Bluma Lennon, distinguished professor of Latin American literature at Cambridge, is hit by a car while crossing the street, immersed in a volume of Emily Dickinson's poems. Several months after her untimely demise, a package arrives for her from Argentina - a copy or a Conrad novel, encrusted in cement and inscribed with a mysterious dedication. Bluma's successor in the department (and a former lover) travels to Buenos Aires to track down the sender, one Carlos Brauer, who turns out to have disappeared." "The last thing known is that he moved to a remote stretch of the Uruguayan coastline and built himself a house out of his enormous and valuable library. How he got there, and why, is the subject of this seductive novel - part mystery, part social comedy, and part examination of all the many forms of bibliomania." "Illustrated by Peter Sis, The House of Paper is a tribute to the strange and passionate relationship between people and their books."--BOOK JACKET.
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