Name: Kepler
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Author: John Banville
ISBN: 9781335653079

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Physical Book

Author

John Banville

Publisher

Hanover Square Press

Language

English

Pages

240

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781335653079

Kepler

John Banville (Author) · Hanover Square Press · Paperback

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Synopsis "Kepler"

The Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea re-creates the life of the Renaissance mathematical genius Johannes Kepler and his incredible drive to chart the orbits of the planets and the geometry of the universe. Johannes Kepler, born in 1571 in southern Germany, was one of the world's greatest mathematicians and astronomers. The novel Kepler by John Banville brilliantly re-creates his life and his work, which laid the foundation of the universe even while he was being driven from exile to exile by religious and domestic strife. At the same time, it illuminates the harsh realities of the Renaissance world, rich in imaginative daring but rooted in poverty, squalor and the tyrannical power of emperors. "What Banville writes is historically accurate, but his [are] a novelist's truth, and...a lover's prose." --Newsweek

John Banville

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John William Banville es un novelista irlandés nacido en Wexford en 1945, cuya prosa ha sido descrita como precisa, lírica y profundamente reflexiva. A lo largo de su carrera ha trabajado también como periodista, y bajo el seudónimo Benjamin Black ha escrito novelas policiacas protagonizadas por el patólogo Quirke. Sus historias tienden a explorar temas como la pérdida, la obsesión y la memoria, muchas veces con un tono existencial y filosófico.

Banville ha sido ampliamente premiado: ganó el Premio Booker» en 2005 por su novela The Sea, recibió el Premio Franz Kafka en 2011 y el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras en 2014. Entre sus obras más destacadas están El Mar (The Sea), Ancient Light y la novela corta The Newton Letter, que muestran su dominio de la introspección y de la narrativa reflexiva.

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