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Already an international bestseller, `In Search of Klingsor’ traces an American physicist’s thrilling search to unmask Hitler’s chief science advisor, the man whose work on the German atomic bomb threatened Allied security.In 1946, Francis Bacon, a brilliant young American physicist, is pursuing research under the guidance of Albert Einstein, Kurt Gödel and other great minds of modern science. But because of a series of personal indiscretions he is forced to accept an altogether different, more sinister, assignment: uncover `Klingsor’, Hitler's foremost advisor on the atomic bomb. But who is Klingsor and where might he be found?Bacon’s efforts to expose the truth take him to Germany and to Gustav Links, a survivor of the failed attempt to kill Hitler in 1944. With Links at his side, Bacon is able to reconstruct a map of European maths and physics and embark on a journey that will lead him to some of the greatest scientific thinkers of the time, including Heisenberg, Schrödinger and Böhr, all of them suspects. As the search for his seemingly omniscient adversary intensifies, Bacon is drawn deeper and deeper into the secrets and lies of post-war Europe and into a complicated relationship with a mysterious and alluring woman whose motives are unclear.Part mystery, part psychological puzzle, part spy story, `In Search of Klingsor’ is already an international bestseller. It has been compared with Umberto Eco's `The Name of the Rose’ in its ability to fuse its many elements – science, metaphysics, mathematics, philosophy – into a single compelling narrative and will delight anyone with an enquiring mind.

Esta compilación es el resultado de la transcripción textual de los conversatorios que tuvieron lugar en Zoom, en marzo de 2024, con motivo del vigésimo aniversario de A Contracorriente: una revista de estudios latinoamericanos. Dichos conversatorios contaron con la participación de cuatro destacados escritores latinoamericanos, Pola Oloixarac (Argentina), Jorge Volpi (México), Patricio Pron (Argentina) y Nona Fernández (Chile); asimismo, sus interlocutores fueron los críticos Ariel Schettini, Héctor Jaimes, Greg Dawes y María Rosa Olivera-Williams, respectivamente. En las reflexiones generadas a partir de estos diálogos se exploran las formas en que la literatura actúa como herramienta de resistencia frente al neoliberalismo contemporáneo.

Already an international bestseller, ‘In Search of Klingsor’ traces an American physicist’s thrilling search to unmask Hitler’s chief science advisor, the man whose work on the German atomic bomb threatened Allied security.In 1946, Francis Bacon, a brilliant young American physicist, is pursuing research under the guidance of Albert Einstein, Kurt Gödel and other great minds of modern science. But because of a series of personal indiscretions he is forced to accept an altogether different, more sinister, assignment: uncover ‘Klingsor’, Hitler's foremost advisor on the atomic bomb. But who is Klingsor and where might he be found?Bacon’s efforts to expose the truth take him to Germany and to Gustav Links, a survivor of the failed attempt to kill Hitler in 1944. With Links at his side, Bacon is able to reconstruct a map of European maths and physics and embark on a journey that will lead him to some of the greatest scientific thinkers of the time, including Heisenberg, Schrödinger and Böhr, all of them suspects. As the search for his seemingly omniscient adversary intensifies, Bacon is drawn deeper and deeper into the secrets and lies of post-war Europe and into a complicated relationship with a mysterious and alluring woman whose motives are unclear.Part mystery, part psychological puzzle, part spy story, ‘In Search of Klingsor’ is already an international bestseller. It has been compared with Umberto Eco's ‘The Name of the Rose’ in its ability to fuse its many elements – science, metaphysics, mathematics, philosophy – into a single compelling narrative and will delight anyone with an enquiring mind.

Con la precisión y la sensualidad del cuento, pero también con el aliento épico de una novela, las tres historias que forman este volumen se sitúan en esa tierra de nadie imprecisa, sorprendente e incluso difícil de limitar que Jorge Volpi ha bautizado como "la media distancia", un género único, con sus propias leyes, tradiciones, oficiantes y enemigos. A pesar del oscuro silencio, El juego del Apocalipsis y el relato que da título a este libro, Días de ira, se encuentran sin lugar a dudas entre lo mejor de la producción de su autor, demostrando, con esta personal y fascinante manera de escribir narrativa breve, que se puede tener al mismo tiempo la paciencia del novelista y la agilidad del escritor de cuentos, para terminar firmando "poemas sinfónicos en un solo movimiento", en los que resistencia y velocidad van unidos de la mano.

¿Puede detenerse lo irreversible? ¿Alguien puede convertirse en un teorema sin solución? ¿Es posible huir de un destino que no nos pertenece? ¿Son las redes sociales quienes nos impulsan a la batalla? ¿Un personaje de ficción puede redactar una declaración de principios? ¿Cabe toda la música en un solo cuerpo? Caminamos asediados por interrogantes, sufrimos la desigualdad que nos imponen las esferas de poder, respiramos la ira de sociedades cada vez más polarizadas. Vivimos coléricos, iracundos, enrabiados. Como si se tratara de un manual sobre la rabia, Jorge Volpi disecciona, incide y profundiza magistralmente en los espacios que generan nuestras confrontaciones y en las hendiduras en las que nos precipitamos o escapamos cada uno de nosotros.