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Ángel Bonomini – The Novices of Lerna

Ángel Bonomini The Novices of Lerna recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de Argentijnse verhalenbundel uit 1972. Op 27 mei 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Transit Books de Engelse vertaling van de roman Los novicios de Lerna uit Argentinië van schrijver Ángel Bonomini die oorspronkelijk in 1972 verscheen. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de bundel met verhalen, de schrijver, de vertaler en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verschenen of aangekondigd.

Ángel Bonomini The Novices of Lerna recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, review of recensie verschijnt van The Novices of Lerna, het boek uit 1972 van de Argentijnse schrijver Ángel Bonomini, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

  • “I’m so enthralled by the book that one night, when Borges came over, I proposed we read the only story I hadn’t read yet: “The Novices of Lerna.” We were dazzled. The story is admirably told, with much wisdom, everything is spot on.” (Letter from Adolfo Bioy Casares to Ángel Bonomini, September 18, 1972)
  • “Bonomini’s fantastic collection [allows] the worlds of his stories to slither out and off the page, offer forbidden fruit, and shoot readers into a fallen and forgotten world where the real is absurd and the absurd is really the most true thing on offer.” (The Rumpus)

Ángel Bonomini The Novices of Lerna

The Novices of Lerna

  • Auteur: Ángel Bonomini (Argentinië)
  • Soort boek: Argentijnse verhalen
  • Origineel: Los novicios de Lerna (1972)
  • Engelse vertaling: Jordan Landsman
  • Uitgever: Transit Books
  • Verschijnt: 27 mei 2024
  • Omvang: 160 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback
  • Prijs: $17.95
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van boek uit 1972 van Ángel Bonomini

A forgotten masterpiece by an enigmatic master of Argentine fantastic literature.

When unambitious scholar Ramón Beltra receives a mysterious invitation to a lucrative six-month fellowship at the University of Lerna in Switzerland, he reluctantly complies with the unusual qualifying paperwork requiring several pages of detailed measurements and photographs of his entire body. Beltra soon finds himself in the deserted university town of Lerna, together with twenty-three other “novices” subject to the same undisclosed project—all of them doppelgangers of Beltra himself. At first, Beltra is the only one to bristle at the school’s dizzying array of rules and regulations, but this all changes with the onset of an uncontrollable epidemic, and the fellows begin dying off one by one…

The Novices of Lerna introduces Bonomini’s fantastic tales to English readers for the first time. Shot through with wry humor and tender absurdity, these meditations on identity, surveillance, and isolation remain eerily prescient.


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