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The Revolutions Trilogy #2

Kepler

john banville

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Johannes Kepler es sin duda uno de los personajes más importantes e influyentes en la historia de la Humanidad, y su particular acercamiento a su trayectoria biográfica permite a Banville construir una novela que ofrece tanto sus pensamientos más íntios como la evolución de sus teorías y los avatares históricos de los que fue testigo, a veces recurriendo de un modo muy efectivo al género epistolar.
Al igual que su otra obra sobre Copérnico, Kepler, es una de las mejores novelas históricas de tema científico jamás escritas. Sin embargo, el acercamiento a la intimidad del personaje, el tratamiento de sus conflictos familiares y económicos y la importancia concedida al transfondo histórico sobre el que se desarrolla su vida la hacen atractiva a los lectores no necesariamente interesados de un modo especial en la historia de la ciencia.

288 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1981
Series
The Revolutions Trilogy
Literary awards
guardian fiction award, allied irish banks prize, 

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Format
288 pages, Paperback
Published
October 2, 2004 by Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana, S.A.
ISBN
9788435015899
ASIN
8435015890
Language
Spanish; Castilian

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William John Banville is an Irish novelist, short story writer, adapter of dramas and screenwriter. Though he has been described as "the heir to Proust, via Nabokov", Banville himself maintains that W.B. Yeats and Henry James are the two real influences on his work.
Banville has won the 1976 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the 2003 International Nonino Prize, the 2005 Booker Prize, the 2011 Franz Kafka Prize, the 2013 Austrian State Prize for European Literature and the 2014 Prince of Asturias Award for Literature. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2007. Italy made him a Cavaliere of the Ordine della Stella d'Italia (essentially a knighthood) in 2017. He is a former member of Aosdána, having voluntarily relinquished the financial stipend in 2001 to another, more impoverished, writer.
Banville was born and grew up in Wexford town in south-east Ireland. He published his first novel, Nightspawn, in 1971. A second, Birchwood, followed two years later. "The Revolutions Trilogy", published between 1976 and 1982, comprises three works, each named in reference to a renowned scientist: Doctor Copernicus, Kepler and The Newton Letter. His next work, Mefisto, had a mathematical theme. His 1989 novel The Book of Evidence, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of that year's Guinness Peat Aviation award, heralded a second trilogy, three works which deal in common with the work of art. "The Frames Trilogy" is completed by Ghosts and Athena, both published during the 1990s. Banville's thirteenth novel, The Sea, won the Booker Prize in 2005. In addition, he publishes crime novels as Benjamin Black — most of these feature the character of Quirke, an Irish pathologist based in Dublin.
Banville is considered a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He lives in Dublin.

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JelloApocalypse
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April 25,2025
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I'm really liking this one. Hope it holds up.

It didn't. There is a long section of "letters" Kepler writes to various people, fellow astronomers and/or patrons, and it just doesn't seem to me it moves us ahead. The book returns to narrative structure for the ending, and that was pretty well done, but I'm afraid it doesn't live up to the promise of the beginning.
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TheDarkClown
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April 25,2025
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Some parts of this book I liked others I found tedious and dubious and drawing too much on artistic license but that's the authors privilege but this reader was not engaged despite it being very well written and interesting enough to go to other sources to explore Keplers work and life.
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hidarslan
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April 25,2025
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A crank writing about a crank. Admittedly, both author John Banville and his subject the astronomer Johannes Kepler are brilliant. There were snippets finely crafted, and the peripatetic life of Kepler around middle Europe against a background of religious warfare was a revelation. I don't know if I could recommend it, however.
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Ciconia
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April 25,2025
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Biografía que se centra más en el individuo que en su obra. No transmite todo el desconcierto con el que Kepler aceptó sus leyes y menos el inmenso respeto de este por las tablas de Tycho.

Kepler fue un gran científico, eso no se nota tanto en estas páginas.
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EvaFan95
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April 25,2025
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Banvil je izuzetno dobar pisac, a Đorđe Krivokapić majstor prevođenja.

Ova knjiga, kroz Keplerovu biografiju (delovi su stvarni, nedostatak podataka je nadomestio autor) priča o strasti na kojoj se, najverovatnije, sve temelji: žudnjom za razumevanjem poretka sveta. Traži Kepler dokaz za harmoniju u Kosmosu, dok ga sapliću razne srednjovekovne muke: bolesti, samovolja raznih careva koji se takmiče u zvekanstvu ali su revnosni u neplaćanju obaveza, raznorazni hirovi klera, ratovi, deca koja umiru, žene slabog zdravlja, smarači koji traže da im napravi horoskop, Galilejeva sujeta, samodovoljni bonvivan Tiho Brahe inkvizicija koja smatra da mu majka mora goreti na lomači i svašta još. A on računa odnose između Marsove i Saturnove putanje i svašta još. Meri, gleda u nebo, u svoje snove, čeka znak, prati intuiciju, štampa knjige, piše, piše, piše… i veruje da je rešenje evo, tu.
Da je ovo pisao Umberto Eko, bilo bi mnogo zanimljivije – verovatno bi nakitio radnju svakakvim misterijama i čudesima, a Banvilu je više stalo do književnog izraza, pa pored svega toga samo prolazi, uz pogled jednim okom. Zato, ako niste dobro skocentrisani, može biti malo nezgodno pohvatati ko je ko i šta se kad zbiva. Stil nije naporan, ali radnja nije linearna, a često sklizne iz trećeg u misli prvog lica, potom u epistolografiju (Keplerova korespodencija nije sačuvana, ali je Banvil to vrlo lepo rekonstruisao), a kad se tome dodaju matematika i astronomija, bude malko čupkasto. Ili je bar meni bivalo, jer sam u nedogled razvukla čitanje.

Na kraju možete da izaberete utisak: radovanje što, eto, ne živimo u baš najgorem istorijskom trenutku ako nam je do znanja ili očajavanje što se saznajne žrtve i dalje ne vrednuju, pa je, manje – više, situacija nepromenjena.
U prilog ovom prvom, Kepler kaže: „Pokaži im, svima im pokaži, nikada neću umreti“

Četvorka.

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SexyCookieEater
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April 25,2025
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I was interested in the dialogues between Kepler and Tycho Brahe. The letters were also a joy. Were any of these original letters or purely fiction?
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Alcast
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April 25,2025
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Џона Банвила сам упознао кроз његову вероватно најпознатију књигу „Море“ и тада ме је купило његово приповедање. „Кеплер“ је другачијег тона и интензитета, али се види исто мајсторство у писању.
Банвил је изузетно успешно креирао атмосферу и дух Кеплеровог времена. Сјајно је описао грозничави ум овог великог научника, суоченог са прозаичним проблемима свакодневног преживљавања, верским ратовима који раздиру Европу, неиспуњеношћу у брачном животу, као и смрћу своје деце. Значајан је и његов однос са другим великим научником тога доба – Тихом Брахеом, који му је практично био нешто попут учитеља и покровитеља (али веома незгодне нарави). Приповедање није линеарно, тако да ћемо парче по парче конструисати Кеплерово кретање и пут до постављања нових теорија и закона који су променили људски доживљај космоса и његових пространстава, но и даље ће остати доста неухватљивог и неизреченог.
Свакако је Банвил сјајан писац, а ово веома вредно читања. Надам се да ће бити преведена и остала дела из ове трилогије о научницима.
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In tears, his vision splintering, he turned away, clasping the creature to him, and felt it twitch, and cough, and suddenly, as if starting in amazement, die: his son. The damp hot head lolled in his hand. What pitiless player had tossed him this tender ball of woe? He was to know other losses, but never again quite like this, like a part of himself crawling blind and mewling into death.
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