Ya había comentado por aquí que esperaba esta novela con bastante ilusión. Nada más caer en mis manos el ejemplar ya me puse a disfrutar sus primeras páginas. Páginas no tan fáciles de leer por la gran introducción de términos que hace el autor, todo hay que decirlo, pero que disfruté de igual forma. A ver cuanto tiempo me lleva terminar con las 900 y pico que componen la novela.
De las solapas
“Neal Stephenson has a once-in-a-generation gift: he makes complex ideas clear, and he makes them funny, heartbreaking, and thrilling.” -Time
Anathem, the latest invention by the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle, is a magnificent creation: a work of great scope, intelligence, and imagination that ushers readers into a recognizable -yet strangely inverted- world.
Fraa Erasmas is a young avout living in the Concent of Saunt Edhar, a sanctuary for mathematicians, scientiest, and philosophers, protected from the corrupting influences of the outside “saecular” world by ancient stone, honored traditions, and complex rituals. Over the centuries, cities and governments have risen and fallen beyond the concent’s walls. Three times during history’s darkest epochs violence born of superstition and ignorance has invaded and devastated the cloistered mathic community. Yet the avout have always managed to adapt in the wake of catastrophe, becoming out of necessity even more austere and less dependent on technology and material things. And Erasmas has no fear of the autside -the Extramuros- for the last of the terrible times was long, long ago.
Now, in celebration of the week-long, once-in-a-decade rite of Apert, the fraas and suurs prepare to venture beyond the concent’s gates -at the same time opening them wide to welcome the curious “extras” in. During his first Apert as a fraa, Erasmas eagerly anticipates reconnecting with the landmarks and family he hasn’t seen since he was “collected.” But before the week is out, both the existence he abandoned and the one he embraced will stand poised on the brink of cataclysmic change.
Powerful unforeseen forces jeopardize the peaceful stability of mathic life and established ennui of the Extramuros -a threat that only an unsteady alliance of saecular and avout can oppose- as, one by one, Erasmas and his colleagues, teachers, and friends are summoned forth from the safety of the concent in hopes of warding off global disaster. Suddenly burdened with a staggering responsibility, Erasmas finds himself a major player in a drama that will determine the future of his world -as he sets out on an extraordinary odyssey that will carry him to the most dangerous, inhospitable corners of the planet… and beyond.
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Todavía tengo pendiente terminar el “Ciclo Barroco” [tengo aparcada la última parte desde hace un año], pero tenia ganas de iniciarme en la lectura en inglés con algo de Stephenson.
Estaré atento a tus comentarios sobre el libro.
Todavía no tengo claro si seré capaz de enfrentarme a el de golpe.
No te lo recomendaría para iniciarte al inglés. Stephenson se ha inventado un montón de palabras, tiene un glosario al final bastante extenso.
Yo también tengo pendiente de terminar el Ciclo Barroco, la verdad es que me deben faltar dos libros por lo menos.
Pues tendré que esperarme a que Pedro Jorge lo traduzca y, mientras tanto, terminar el Ciclo Barroco.
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