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Tracing a circular course that echoes Bach's Goldberg Variations,
Luis Sagasti's second book to appear in English takes the guise of
a musical scheherazade, recounting story after story, vibrating to
celestial harmonies. From the music born of the sun to the music
sent into space on the Voyager mission, from Rothko to rock music,
from the composers of the concentration camps to a weeping room for
Argentinian conscripts in the Falklands, A Musical Offering
traverses the shifting sands of fiction and history.
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Fireflies (Paperback)
Luis Sagasti; Translated by Fionn Petch
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R278
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Discovery Miles 2 260
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How do we even begin to narrate the history of the world? Where do
we start, and where do we end? Fireflies is Sagasti's bold and
original attempt to answer these questions. Roaming across time and
geography, he lights on an eclectic array of characters and events
that at first glance seem unrelated, and teases out their stories
to reveal unexpected points of contact between them. Stanley
Kubrick, Joseph Beuys, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Neil Armstrong,
Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Beatles, Japanese poets, Brazilian
priests, Russian cosmonauts and many more cross these pages, and
Sagasti finds common threads that weave them together into a single
narrative.The fireflies themselves perhaps provide the key to
understanding this book. They become a metaphor for the resistance
of certain luminous moments, certain twinkling fragments of
history, to the passing of time. They remind us that events do not
always simply disappear neatly into the darkness, but rather
remain, floating in the air, lighting up the night sky
indefinitely. Sagasti shows us that the present moment, like this
novel, is a tapestry woven of a multiplicity of times.Using his
unique, poetic and keenly observant style, Sagasti transforms the
accidents of history into a single, lyrical constellation, and for
the reader it is an extraordinary sight.
El segundo libro traducido al ingles de Luis Sagasti emprende un
recorrido circular que hace eco de las _Variaciones Goldberg _de
Bach para narrarnos historia tras historia, al estilo de
Scheherazade, entretejidas de manera sutil y sorprendente, creando
un tapiz que vibra al son de armonias celestiales. Sagasti nos guia
en un viaje que va desde la musica nacida bajo el sol a la musica
enviada al espacio en la mision Voyager. Desde Rothko hasta el
rock, desde aquellos compositores en los campos de concentracion
hasta una habitacion donde se escuchan los lamentos de los reclutas
argentinos en Malvinas. Un delicado homenaje a la narracion, la
infancia y el poder transformador de la musica. _The Spanish
language edition of A Musical Offering. Tracing a circular course
that echoes Bach's Goldberg Variations, Luis Sagasti's second book
to appear in English takes the guise of a musical scheherazade,
recounting story after story, vibrating to celestial harmonies.
From the music born of the sun to the music sent into space on the
Voyager mission, from Rothko to rock music, from the composers of
the concentration camps to a weeping room for Argentinian
conscripts in the Falklands, A Musical Offering traverses the
shifting sands of fiction and history. _ Tracing a circular course
that echoes Bach's Goldberg Variations, Luis Sagasti's second book
to appear in English takes the guise of a musical scheherazade,
recounting story after story, vibrating to celestial harmonies.
From the music born of the sun to the music sent into space on the
Voyager mission, from Rothko to rock music, from the composers of
the concentration camps to a weeping room for Argentinian
conscripts in the Falklands, A Musical Offering traverses the
shifting sands of fiction and history.
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