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El absoluto / The Absolute (Spanish Edition)

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  • Product Details

    Author:
    Daniel Guebel
    Format:
    Paperback
    Pages:
    560
    Publisher:
    PRH Grupo Editorial (March 21, 2023)
    Language:
    Spanish
    ISBN-13:
    9788439732785
    ISBN-10:
    8439732783
    Weight:
    25.8oz
    Dimensions:
    5.28" x 9.05" x 1.58"
    File:
    RandomHouse-PRH_Book_Company_PRH_PRT_Onix_delta_active_D20260617T073510_156615787-20260617.xml
    Folder:
    RandomHouse
    List Price:
    $27.95
    Case Pack:
    7
    As low as:
    $21.52
    Publisher Identifier:
    P-RH
    Discount Code:
    A
    Series:
    MAPA DE LAS LENGUAS
    QuickShip:
    Yes
    Audience:
    General/trade
    Country of Origin:
    Spain
    Pub Discount:
    65
    Imprint:
    Literatura Random House
  • Overview

    Premio Municipal de la Novela 2021
    Premio Nacional de Literatura Argentina 2018
    Premio Literario de la Academia Argentina de Letras 2017
    Mejor novela del 2016 según La Nación

    «Ya es hora de que el alocado escritor argentino Daniel Guebel deje de ser el secreto mejor guardado de la literaturaen castellano.» —Ricardo Baixeras, El Periódico

     
    Tres siglos de historia y una familia enloquecida y genial.
     
    El absoluto es la crónica de las seis generaciones que cambiaron el arte, la ciencia, la mística, la política y hasta el rumbo del Universo. Del Big Bang a la Revolución Rusa, de la música aleatoria a la máquina del tiempo, esta monumental novela, deslumbrante y desenfadada, sitúa a Daniel Guebel, definitivamente, entre los autores más virtuosos de habla hispana y entre los pocos capaces de escribir una obra que desafía a la propia literatura.

    ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

    Municipal Novel Prize 2021
    Argentine National Literature Award 2018
    Literary Award of the Argentine Academy of Letters 2017
    Best Novel of 2016, according to La Nación

    A provocative multigenerational exploration of creative genius, madness, and family relationships. With the ambition and density of style of Vladimir Nabokov or Olga Tokarczuk, this is a story both profound and handled with a light touch.
     
    The Absolute is a sprawling historical novel about the Deliuskin-Scriabin family, made up of six generations of geniuses and madmen. Beginning in the mid-18th century in Russia, across Europe and ending in late 20th-century Argentina, the characters’ lives play out in different branches of art, politics, and science in such radical ways that they transform the world and its reality. The narrator’s ancestor, Frantisek Deliuskin, invents a new form of music in the 18th century; his son, Andrei Deliuskin, makes some marginal annotations to the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola that are later interpreted by Lenin as an instruction manual to carry out the Russian Revolution of 1917; Esau Deliuskin, following the course of his father, creates a socialist utopian society; and down through the generations to the narrator, whose creation takes him back in time and space to the moment of the Big Bang.
     
    The Absolute is a monumental work about the creation of art and about family, about spiritual traditions and about throwing oneself into the world not to capture life but to create it, in and through words.