Bibliograph

The absolute, a novel, Daniel Guebel ; translated by Jessica Sequeira

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Label

The absolute, a novel, Daniel Guebel ; translated by Jessica Sequeira

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The absolute

Oclc number

1260241134

Responsibility statement

Daniel Guebel ; translated by Jessica Sequeira

Sub title

a novel

Summary

"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"--, Provided by publisher

Target audience

adult

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