Learning to Pray in the Age of Technique: Lenz Buchmann's Position in the World - Brossura

Tavares, Goncalo M.

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ISBN 10: 1564786277 ISBN 13: 9781564786272

Casa editrice: Dalkey Archive Pr, 2011

Riassunto

In a city not quite of any particular era, a distant and calculating man named Lenz Buchmann works as a surgeon, treating his patients as little more than equations to be solved: life and death no more than results to be worked through without the least compassion. Soon, however, Buchmann’s ambition is no longer content with medicine, and he finds himself rising through the ranks of his country’s ruling party . . . until a diagnosis transforms this likely future president from a leading player into just another victim. In language that is at once precise, clinical, and oddly childlike, Gonc¸alo M. Tavares—the Portuguese novelist hailed by Jose´ Saramago as the greatest of his generation—here brings us another chilling investigation into the limits of human experience, mapping the creation and then disintegration of a man we might call “evil,” and showing us how he must learn to adapt in a world he can no longer dominate.

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Recensione:

The literature of Gonçalo M. Tavares is radical, and does not allow us to remain indifferent. On the contrary, it makes us uncomfortable and hurt. Tavares is a master of the art of shocking the reader. --José Castello - Ipsilon

L'autore:

Gonçalo M. Tavares was born in 1970. He has published numerous books since 2001 and has been awarded an impressive number of literary prizes in a very short time, including the Saramago Prize in 2005. Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor, researcher, and translator. His translations include Creole (2002), The Book of Chameleons (2006), My Father s Wives (2008), and Rainy Season (2009), by Angolan novelist José Eduardo Agualusa.

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• Editore: Dalkey Archive Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1564786277
• ISBN 13: 9781564786272
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 342