Sublunar - Harald Voetmann

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Auteur(s) : Harald Voetmann

Editeur : New Directions Publishing Corporation

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/08/2023

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 128

Expédition : 168

Dimensions : 19.7 x 12.8 x 1.0

ISBN : 9780811229784

Résumé :
A great mind and a formidable personality, Brahe is also the world's most illustrious noseless man of his time. Told by Brahe and his assistants-a filthy cast of characters-Sublunar is both novel and almanac. Alongside sexual deviancy, spankings, ruminations on a new nose-flesh, wood, or gold?-Brahe (a choleric and capricious character) and his peculiar helpers (I would rather watch her globes tonight than icy stars) take painstainking measurements that will revolutionize astronomy, long before the invention of the telescope. Meanwhile the plague rages in Europe...
The second in Voetmann's triptych of historical novels, Sublunar is as visceral, absurd, and tragic as its predecessor Awake, but with a special nocturnal glow and a lunatic-edged gaze trained on the moon and the stars.

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Biographie:
Nominated for the Nordic Council Prize, the Danish author?Harald Voetmann?(b. 1978) has written novels, short stories, poetry and a monograph on the Roman poet Sulpicia. He also?translates classical Latin literature, notably Petronius and Juvenal. Voetmann has completed a?trilogy of historical novels:?Awake?records the wheezing monologue of ancient Italian writer Pliny the Elder...

Sommaire:
A great mind and a formidable personality, Brahe is also the world's most illustrious noseless man of his time. Told by Brahe and his assistants-a filthy cast of characters-Sublunar is both novel and almanac. Alongside sexual deviancy, spankings, ruminations on a new nose-flesh, wood, or gold?-Brahe (a choleric and capricious character) and his peculiar helpers (I would rather watch her globes tonight than icy stars) take painstainking measurements that will revolutionize astronomy, long before the invention of the telescope. Meanwhile the plague rages in Europe...
The second in Voetmann's triptych of historical novels, Sublunar is as visceral, absurd, and tragic as its predecessor Awake, but with a special nocturnal glow and a lunatic-edged gaze trained on the moon and the stars.

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