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Title: En Busca De Klingsor by Jorge Volpi ISBN: 8-4322160-9-7 Publisher: Editorial Seix Barral, S.A. Pub. Date: November, 2002 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Tyranny,science and sex
Comment: An excellent, fascinating book of the genre "science in fiction"
with only little fiction and a lot of science and history. Volpi, a 33 years old Mexican, is not a natural scientist (he is a philologist and a lawyer). Yet he delves with complicated scientific matters and presents them to the general public almost without objectionable errors. He must have done a lot of research and talked to a lot of physicists, especially in Germany. One of the few deplorable errors I found is his introduction of Lise Meitner as Otto Hahn's assistant. He was actually a colleague co-director of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institute. He had to leave Germany in 1938 as an Austrian ethnic Jew (actually a Christian) and had a very rough time. She bitterly complained several times from the exile as to the fact that she was presented as an assistant (even by Hahn). This error should be corrected asap. Otherwise, scientists as well as nonscientists. Some juicy sex, often not much to the point, is well written and can be forgiven.
The book is now available in German. Why not in English?
Rating: 5
Summary: Collision of worlds
Comment: Here we have a masterpiece from the young mexican writer Jorge Volpi. This excellent novel transport the reader to the most difficult time of the past century, World War 2. But the greatest thing about this book is not the plot, which is excellent. The greatest thing of it is the construction of the novel, which bring us inside the mind of Mr. Gustav Links. En Busca de Klingsor is the collision of some really difficult worlds, the scientific, the historic, and the literary worlds. The reader needs to be really allert to the scientific structure of the book or he will never be able to find the great Klingsor and will be fooled by the plot.
Rating: 4
Summary: Prometedor debut
Comment: Volpi ha trazado el itinerario vertiginoso de uno de los avances más controvertidos de la ciencia. Tal y como lo señala alguien más, es también una deliciosa mixtura de historias personales. Sin embargo, a pesar de la sorprendente calidad narrativa que derrocha este novelista, no termino de sentirme satisfecho con el entramado "policial" de la misma. La he leído como recomienda Russell: con entusiasmo la primera vez, con esceptiscismo la segunda. Y he descubierto esta breve confirmación de la ley de la incertidumbre: ¿es una gran novela o una excelente tomadura de pelo?
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Title: El Fin De LA Locura by Jorge Volpi ISBN: 9686941843 Publisher: Editorial Seix Barral, S.A. Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Amphitryon. Premio Primavera de Novela 2000 by Ignacio Padilla, Ignacio Padilla Suarez ISBN: 8423979776 Publisher: Espasa-Calpe, S.A. Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Las Peliculas de Mi Vida : Una Novela by Alberto Fuguet ISBN: 0060559403 Publisher: RAYO Pub. Date: 14 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Sirena selena vestida de pena by Mayra Santos-Febres, Mayra Santos Febre ISBN: 8439704607 Publisher: Grijalbo Mondadori, S.A Pub. Date: 2000 List Price(USD): $27.75 |
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Title: No One Will See Me Cry by Cristina Rivera-Garza ISBN: 1880684918 Publisher: Curbstone Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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