The Anatomist by Federico Andahazi
››› Download audio book for free. ‹‹‹ Original Title: The Anatomist ISBN: 0385491328 ISBN13: 9780385491327 Autor: Federico Andahazi Rating: 4.9 of 5 stars (2939) counts Original Format: Hardcover, 224 pages Download Format: PDF, RTF, ePub, CHM, MP3. Published: September 1st 1998 / by Doubleday / (first published 1997) Language: English Genre(s): Fiction- 51 users Cultural >Italy- 10 users Historical- 8 users Historical Fiction- 6 users Novels- 6 users
Description:
A lyrically written, sensual, and extraordinarily enjoyable novel in which a Renaissance anatomist's astonishing discovery forever changes the female erotic universe. In sixteenth-centruy Venice, celebrated physician Mateo Colombo finds himself behind bars at the behest of the Church authorities. His is a crime of disclosure, heinous and heretical in the Church's eyes, in that his research threatens to subvert the whole secular order of Renaissance society. Like his namesake Christopher Colombus, he has made a discovery of enormous significance for humankind. Whereas Colombus voyaged outward to explore the world and found the Americas, Mateo Colombo looked inward, across the mons veneris, and uncovered the clitoris. Based on historical fact, The Anatomist is an utterly fascinating excursion into Renaissance Italy, as evocative of time and place as the work of Umberto Eco, and reminiscent of the earthy sensuality of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Perceptive and stirring, it ironically exposes not only the social hypocracies of the day, but also the prejudices and sexual taboos that may still be with us four hundred years later.
About Author:
Federico Andahazi is the son of Bela Andahazi, Hungarian poet and psychoanalyst, and Juana Merlín. During his adolescence, he began to read the classical Argentine and universal authors. He used to escape from school, that reflected the oppressive military dictatorship ruler, to meet with friends in bookstores and bars on Corrientes Avenue, emblematic place of Buenos Aires culture. It was at this time when he began writing his first stories. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in Psychology (Universidad de Buenos Aires); he practiced the psychoanalysis a few years, while he was working on his short stories. In 2008, Andahazi published his first book of nonfiction, Pecar como Dios manda, Sexual History of Argentines. The essay runs in an hypothesis through all his work: you cannot understand the history of a country if you don’t know the history of sex that gestured it.
With a prose that does not forget the novelist, the author conducted this first volume in an exhaustive investigation that starts from the original cultures and reaches the May Revolution. Federico Andahazi currently is working on the following volumes of the sexual history of the Argentines and in various fiction projects. His work has the recognition of the critical all over the world. His books are the subject of many reviews and studies.
Other Editions:
- El Anatomista: Novela (Paperback)
- The Anatomist (Paperback)
- El anatomista (Paperback)
- O Anatomista (Paperback)
- El Anatomista (Paperback)
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Rewiews:
Jun 25, 2009 Andrés Laverde Ortiz Rated it: it was amazing Shelves: deliciosos, cuentos-y-realidades, latinoamericanos Usando una expresión muy de mi círculo de amigos ¡este libro es una falta de respeto! Y no por malo, no juzguen mal, sino porque a veces resulta injusto que entre tanto libro malo solo unos pocos tengan la capacidad de escribir como lo hace este señor que debo decir, se me ha metido en el corazón como uno de mis escritores favoritos. Como en Las Piadosas, El Anatomista (que fue antes) es una novela con descripciones fascinantes, usos del lenguaje muy originales, imágenes nuevas y personajes (¡qué Usando una expresión muy de mi círculo de amigos ¡este libro es una falta de respeto! Y no por malo, no juzguen mal, sino porque a veces resulta injusto que entre tanto libro malo solo unos pocos tengan la capacidad de escribir como lo hace este señor que debo decir, se me ha metido en el corazón como uno de mis escritores favoritos. Como en Las Piadosas, El Anatomista (que fue antes) es una novela con descripciones fascinantes, usos del lenguaje muy originales, imágenes nuevas y personajes (¡qué personajes!) que le dan picante a las páginas: y no podrás evitar comértelas en menos de una semana. Me gustó por diferente. Como novela histórica se sale del estereotipo de los ‘Dan Brownianos’ y le imprime los mejores elementos de quienes se dedican a escribir cuentos: personajes intrigantes y un final bellamente dibujado. 8 likes
