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Cargando... The Pale Blue Eyepor Louis Bayard
  
Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.   ) harishwriter | Oct 12, 2023 |  ) maria.michalska | Mar 14, 2023 | This is all a convoluted way of saying that although I first learnt of Louis Bayard and his novel “The Pale Blue Eye” thanks to the publicity generated by the eponymous Netflix movie, I haven’t watched the film. I have, however, bought and read the book. And what an enjoyable experience it turned out to be. The protagonist and narrator of Bayard’s novel is one Augustus Landor, an ex-New York detective who, in the fall of 1830, is unwillingly drawn out of his grumpy retirement to investigate a horrific crime at the elite West Point Academy. The victim, a young cadet, apparently died by suicide but, following his death, someone ripped out his heart, raising the spectre of either murder or occult ritual or both. Alas, this will not be the last of these dark desecrations, and Landor finds himself under mounting pressure to solve the mystery which threatens to dismantle the Academy. He enlists an unlikely companion to help him navigate the claustrophobic confines of the Academy. This is none other than the young Edgar Allan Poe, a cadet with literary ambitions who also turns out to be no mean sleuth. A Pale Blue Eye is an engrossing pastiche of 19th century mystery/Gothic fiction, with several references to the works – and dark moods – of Poe’s own works and a good dollop of grand guignol. It is strong on atmosphere and I can imagine why this proved a good subject for a movie – certain scenes are “cinematic” in the sense that even while reading them it is not difficult to imagine them being rendered on screen. Admittedly, the novel calls for much suspension of disbelief, especially in the final chapters. But, I guess, that comes as part of this dark, blood-soaked package. https://endsoftheword.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-pale-blue-eye-by-louis-bayard.htm... ( ) JosephCamilleri | Feb 21, 2023 |  ) dylkit | Jul 16, 2022 | I enjoyed this well-written, mystery and the solution. ( ) Vesper1931 | Jul 29, 2021 |
 Bayard reinvigorates historical fiction, rendering the 19th century as if he'd witnessed it firsthand.  "The Pale Blue Eye" is not quite the unalloyed delight of Bayard's first Victorian thriller, "Mr. Timothy" (in part because of its melancholy setting and principal characters), but it's just as gracefully written, from its descriptions of the river, "glassy, opal-gray, crumpling into a million billows," to the author's unostentatious fidelity to the language and mores of the period.  Despite all this hugely accomplished and well-observed character study, the detective story that is meant to act as a framework for the book just doesn't match up to the style and quality of the prose.
En la Academia West Point en 1830, la calma de una tarde de octubre se rompe con el descubrimiento del cuerpo de un joven cadete colgando de una cuerda justo al lado del patio de armas. Un aparente suicidio no es inaudito en un r?imen tan severo como el de West Point, pero a la ma?na siguiente, sale a la luz un horror an? mayor. Alguien se col ?en la habitacin? donde yaca? el cuerpo y extrajo el corazn?.Sin respuestas y desesperada por evitar cualquier publicidad negativa, la Academia recurre a los servicios de un civil local, Augustus Landor, un ex detective de polica? que adquiri ?cierto renombre durante sus a?s en la ciudad de Nueva York antes de retirarse a Hudson Highlands por motivos de salud. Ahora viudo e inquieto en su reclusin?, Landor accede a hacerse cargo del caso. Mientras interroga a los conocidos del muerto, encuentra un ansioso asistente en un joven cadete intrigante y malhumorado con una inclinacin? por la bebida, dos volm?enes de poesa? a su nombre y un pasado turbio que cambia de relato en relato. El nombre del cadete? Edgar Allan Poe. Impresionado con los astutos poderes de observacin? de Poe, Landor est ?convencido de que el poeta puede resultar t?il, si puede mantenerse sobrio el tiempo suficiente para poner a prueba sus agudas habilidades de razonamiento. Trabajando en estrecho contacto, los dos hombres, separados generacionalmente pero con la misma inteligencia, desarrollan una relacin? sorprendentemente profunda a medida que su investigacin? los lleva a un mundo oculto de sociedades secretas, sacrificios rituales y ms? cuerpos. Pronto, sin embargo, los macabros asesinatos y los propios secretos enterrados de Landor amenazan con destrozar a los dos hombres y su reci? formada amistad. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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