04578cam a2200805 4500 585001706 TxAuBib 20220519120000.0 ||||||s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781644211618 1644211610 B098PXN34V Amazon f085cfd1-5491-46ed-8617-5390fea70c10 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 6384729 OverDrive (Product ID) 691366 691366 691366 TxAuBib Guebel, Daniel. The Absolute [Libby]. Seven Stories Press, 2022. world literature. literary fiction. translation. historical novel. Writing. Fiction. philosophy. novels. classic. Cinema. spanish translation. german. mystery. Argentina. art. french. novel. Artists. Latin America. Architecture. latin american literature. debut novel. Essays. meta. literature. fiction books. literature in translation. sentimental novel. literary novel. political novel. philosophical novel. emerging authors. realistic fiction books. books fiction. Argentinian Literature. young authors. up and coming authors. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1040kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. HTML:<b>Winner....</b><br /> <b>Premio Municipal de la Novela 2021</b><br /> <b>Premio Nacional de Literatura Argentina 2018</b><br /> <b>Premio Literario de la Academia Argentina de Letras 2017</b><br /> <b>Best Novel Award by La Nación 2016</b><br /> &#160;<br /> A provocative multigenerational exploration of creative genius, madness,&#160;and family relationships. With the ambition and density of style of Vladimir Nabokov&#160;or&#160;Olga Tokarczuk, this is a story both profound and handled&#160;with a light touch.<br /> <i>The Absolute</i> is a sprawling historical novel about the Deliuskin-Scriabin family, made up of six generations of geniuses and madmen.&#160;Beginning&#160;in the mid-18th century in Russia,&#160;across&#160;Europe and ending&#160;in late 20th-century Argentina, the characters’ lives play out&#160;in different branches of art, politics and science in such radical ways&#160;that they transform the world and its reality. The&#160;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 <i>Spiritual Exercises</i> 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;&#160;and down through the generations to the&#160;narrator,&#160;whose creation takes him&#160;back in time and space&#160;to&#160;the moment of the Big Bang.<br /> &#160;<br /> <i>The Absolute</i> is a monumental work about the creation of art and about family,&#160;about spiritual traditions and about&#160;throwing oneself into the world not to capture life but to create it, in and through words.<br /> &#160;<br /> “This is a masterpiece at a time when masterpieces seem impossible and at the same time challenges the very idea of a masterpiece.&#160;…&#160;It’s the novel one should read if they want to know what an artist is.” —<b><i>La Nación</i></b><br /> &#160;. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-17 20:00:03. Sequeira, Jessica. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f085cfd1-5491-46ed-8617-5390fea70c10&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f085cfd1-5491-46ed-8617-5390fea70c10&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f085cfd1-5491-46ed-8617-5390fea70c10&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)