Una fascinante exploración de la identidad, del fatídico pulso entre tradición y modernidad, y del destino del intelectual. Esta deslumbrante novela, con la que el Premio Nobel de Literatura obtuvo un gran reconocimiento internacional, ofrece una sinuosa reflexión sobre la identidad y las relaciones entre oriente y occidente.
Un joven científico italiano es capturado por piratas cuando viaja de Venecia a Nápoles. Poco después es vendido como esclavo a un sabio turco deseoso de conocer los avances científicos de Occidente. Ambientada en la Turquía del siglo XVII, El castillo blanco cuenta la extraordinaria historia de estos dos hombres, que curiosamente guardan un gran parecido físico. Una fascinante exploración de la identidad, del fatídico pulso entre tradición y modernidad, y del destino del intelectual a través de la relación que surge entre ambos personajes.
Otros autores han opinado:
"Una novela brillante, digna de un narrador único, excepcional."John Updike
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
Nobel Prize Winner 2006
From a Turkish writer who has been compared with Borges, Nabokov, and DeLillo comes a dazzling novel that is at once a captivating work of historical fiction and a sinuous treatise on the enigma of identity and the relations between East and West.
In the 17th century, a young Italian scholar sailing from Venice to Naples is taken prisoner and delivered to Constantinople. There he falls into the custody of a scholar known as Hoja--"master"--a man who is his exact double. In the years that follow, the slave instructs his master in Western science
and technology, from medicine to pyrotechnics. But Hoja wants to know more: why he and his captive are the persons they are and whether,given knowledge of each other's most intimate secrets, they could actually exchange identities.
Set in a world of magnificent scholarship and terrifying savagery, The White Castle is a colorful and intricately patterned triumph of the imagination.
- ISBN10 6073149387
- ISBN13 9786073149389
- Publish Date 28 March 2017
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country ES
- Imprint Debolsillo
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 184
- Language Spanish
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9786073149389