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Beatrice & Virgil
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Descripción Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. First Edition; First Printing. 8.10 X 5.80 X 1 inches; 224 pages. Nº de ref. del artículo: 34918
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Beatrice Virgil
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Descripción Hardcover. Condición: New. 1st Edition. Full number line and unclipped DJ- "Fate takes many forms. When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey - named Beatrice and Virgil - and the epic journey they undertake together. With all the spirit and originality that made Life of Pi so treasured, this brilliant new novel takes the reader on a haunting odyssey". Nº de ref. del artículo: 010179
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Descripción Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. Clean, tight and unmarked with full number line-Stated First Edition- " Fate can take many forms. For Henry, a writer living in a foreign city, it arrives in the form of an envelope from a reader. Instead of the usual fan mail, the envelope contains a story by Flaubert, a scene from a play featuring two characters named Beatrice and Virgil, and a note asking for Henrys help. The note is signed Henry, and the return address is not far from where Henry lives. When Henry walks his dog to hand-deliver his response, he is surprised to discover a taxidermists shop. Here, stunning specimens are poised on the brink of action, silent and preternaturally still, yet bursting with the palpable life of a lost, vibrant world. And when the mysterious, elderly taxidermist introduces his visitor to Beatrice and Virgila donkey and a howler monkeyHenrys life is changed forever. ". Nº de ref. del artículo: 010910
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Descripción Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 1st Edition. " Henrys second novel, written, like his first, under a pen name, had done well. Yann Martels astonishing new novel begins with a successful writer attempting to publish his latest book, made up of a novel and an essay. Henry plans for it to be a flip book that the reader can start at either end, reading the novel or the essay first, because both pieces are equally concerned with representations of the Holocaust. His aim is to give the most horrifying of tragedies a new choice of stories, in order that it be remembered anew and in more than one way. But no one is sympathetic to his provocative idea. What is your book about? his editor repeatedly asks. Should it be placed in the fiction section of a bookstore or with the non-fiction books? a bookseller asks. And where will the barcode go? To them, Henrys book is an unpublishable disaster. Faced with severe and categorical rejection, Henry gives up hope. He abandons writing, moves with his wife to a foreign city, joins a community theatre, becomes a waiter in a chocolatería. But then he receives a package containing a scene from a play, photocopies from a short story by Flaubert about a man who hunts animals down relentlessly and a short note: I need your help. Intrigued, Henry tracks down his correspondent, and finds himself in a strange part of the city, walking past a stuffed okapi into a taxidermists workshop. The taxidermist also named Henry says he has been working on his play, A 20th-Century Shirt, for most of his life, but now he needs Henrys help to describe his characters: the plays protagonists are a stuffed donkey and a howler monkey named Beatrice and Virgil, respectively, and Henrys successful book was in part about animals. He wants help to finish his play and, we may suspect, free himself from it. And though his new acquaintance is austere, abrupt and almost unearthly, Henry the writer is drawn more and more deeply into Henry the taxidermists uncompromising world. The same goes for the reader. The more we read of the play within the novel, the more we find out about the lives of Beatrice and Virgil in a series of initially funny, and then increasingly harrowing dialogues the more troubling their story becomes. As we are drawn deeper into their disturbing moral fable, the relationship between the two faltering writers named Henry becomes more and more complex until it can only be resolved in an explosive, unexpected catastrophe. Though Beatrice & Virgil is initially as wry and engaging as anything Yann Martel has written, this book gradually grows into something more, a shattering and ultimately transfixing work that asks searching questions about the nature of our understanding of history, the meaning of suffering and the value of art. Together it is a pioneeringly original and profoundly moving accomplishment, one that meets Kafkas description of what a book should be: the axe for the frozen sea within us. Review: Yann Martel on Animals and the Holocaust in Beatrice and Virgil I often get asked the question why I use animals in my stories. Life of Pi was set in a zoo and featured a number of animals, and animals once again play a prominent role in my new novel, Beatrice and Virgil. Am I a great animal lover? Well, I suppose I am; nature is indeed beautiful. But the actual reason I like to use animals is because they help me tell my tale. People are cynical about people, but less so about wild animals. A rhinoceros dentist elicits less skepticism, in some ways, than a German dentist. I also use animals in my fiction because people rarely see animals as they truly are, biologically. Rather, they tend to project human traits onto them, seeing nobility in one species, cowardice in another, and so on. This is biological nonsense, of course; every species is and behaves as it needs to in order to survive. But this animal-as-canvas quality is useful for a storyteller.". Nº de ref. del artículo: 017471
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Descripción Condición: New. Nº de ref. del artículo: RCBE--0070
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Descripción Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. A signed, first edition, first printing copy. Only opened for signing by the author. NEW. Signed by Author(s). Nº de ref. del artículo: 000072
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