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Pilgermann: Penguin Modern Classics

Autor Russell Hoban
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 mar 2021
'Superb ...Pilgermannis history, metaphysics, a tangle of mysteries, profound and simple'Guardian

It is 1097 and a traveller arrives in the great, walled city of Antioch with a vision of a beautiful and mysterious geometric design that will change the lives of all those who see it.Pilgermannis a mesmerising recreation of the world of the Crusades, following its unlikely hero and those he meets on a journey of picaresque horror across a Europe of hatreds, visions and a desperate wish for salvation.

'A dark treatise on the mysterious nature of things ... The world according toPilgermannis a brutish place borrowing from Hieronymus Bosch, pilgrimage narrative, allegory and the historical novel'The New York Times Book Review

'A strange and beautiful work'Evening Standard
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241485743
ISBN-10: 0241485746
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria Penguin Modern Classics

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

On his death in 2011,The TimesdescribedRussell Hobanas 'perhaps the most consistently strange writer of the late 20th century'. He thought and wrote in an extraordinary range of genres, becoming first a bestselling writer of children's books, particularly the immortalFrancesstories and his first novel,The Mouse and His Child(1968). After its publication he continued to write for children (most notably perhaps theCaptain Najorkbooks with Quentin Blake andThe Marzipan Pig), but focussed most of his energies on a sequence of wonderful novels, which began withThe Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz(1973) and ended withAngelica Lost and Found(2010). He also wrote the libretto for Harrison Birtwistle's operaThe Second Mrs Kong(1994).

His novels were wildly various, but share his obsession with objects, animals, specific works of art and pieces of music, his love of words and sense of humour. Penguin Modern Classics publishes his first eight novels:The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz,Kleinzeit,Turtle Diary,Riddley Walker,Pilgermann,The Medusa Frequency,FremderandMr Rinyo-Clacton's Offer.

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Superb ...Pilgermannis history, metaphysics, a tangle of mysteries, profound and simple.
The world according toPilgermannis a brutish place borrowing from Hieronymus Bosch's grotesque depictions of hell and the literary traditions of pilgrimage narrative, allegory and the historical novel. It is a novel of ideas... sophisticated and demanding.
A strange and beautiful work, whose mysteries are worth contemplation. Hoban's prose is constantly persuasive.Pilgermannis that rare thing - a novel that can be read with profit more than once.