Borges And The Eternal Orang-Utans
Author: Verissimo, Luis Fernando
ISBN: 9780099461678
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Aug 2005
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback / softback
A hilarious spoof on literary/academic conferences, and a brilliant 'Borgesian' mystery.
Vogelstein is a loner who has always lived among books. Suddenly, fate grabs hold of his insignificant life and carries him off to Buenos Aires, to a conference on Edgar Allan Poe, the inventor of the modern detective story. There Vogelstein meets his idol, Jorge Luis Borges, and for reasons that a mere passion for literature cannot explain, he finds himself at the centre of a murder investigation that involves arcane demons, the mysteries of the Kabbala, the possible destruction of the world, and the Elizabethan magus John Dee's 'Eternal Orang-utan', which would end up by writing all the known books in the cosmos.
ISBN: 9780099461678
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 01 Aug 2005
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback / softback
A hilarious spoof on literary/academic conferences, and a brilliant 'Borgesian' mystery.
Vogelstein is a loner who has always lived among books. Suddenly, fate grabs hold of his insignificant life and carries him off to Buenos Aires, to a conference on Edgar Allan Poe, the inventor of the modern detective story. There Vogelstein meets his idol, Jorge Luis Borges, and for reasons that a mere passion for literature cannot explain, he finds himself at the centre of a murder investigation that involves arcane demons, the mysteries of the Kabbala, the possible destruction of the world, and the Elizabethan magus John Dee's 'Eternal Orang-utan', which would end up by writing all the known books in the cosmos.
