![]() The avant-gardes of the twentieth century continue two major Piranesian themes, "the limit of forms and. Piranesi, "the Wicked Architect, " used architectural language in ways that transgressed and destroyed traditional boundaries. "The Sphere and the Labyrinth" charts an extensive itinerary from Piranesi to postmodernism. In his methodological introduction, he states that the historiographic work should set into crisis not only its subjects and their plurality but also the historical project itself and the critical operations and languages of history it employs. Interweaving intellectual models and modes of production and consumption, Tafuri constructs an elaborate network of references, comparisons, and analogies that leads to an interpretation of history as an archaeology of fragments and interpretations rather than a linear progression or compact block. Tafuri probes the lines between reality and ideology, the gap that avant-garde ideology places between its own demands and its translation into techniques, the ways in which the avant-garde reaches compromises with the world, and the conditions that permit its existence. Una historia mucho más comprimida pero no menos cautivadora.» - The Boston Globe «De una agudeza inmensa.This major work by Manfredo Tafuri, one of today's most important theoretical historians and critics of architecture and urbanism, presents his critique of traditional approaches to historical investigation and criticism in a penetrating analysis of the avant-gardes and discourses of architecture. Una hazaña sobresaliente.» - The Wall Street Journal «El ingenio y la imaginación singulares de Clarke siguen intactos. Una segunda novela que roza la perfección.» - The Times «Una fábula deslumbrante sobre la soledad, la imaginación y la memoria.» - The Spectator «Bella, extraña, fascinante.» - Mail on Sunday «¿Por qué no atreverse con el nuevo libro de Susanna Clarke para viajar al subconsciente sin necesidad de tomar nada?» - New York Magazine «Una lectura adictiva de máxima calidad. ![]() Brillante y singular.» - The Sunday Times «Una lectura sutilmente cómica y completamente seductora.» - Daily Mail «Espectacular. Se introduce en el subconsciente con acertijos que van mucho más allá de la última página. Supera las expectativas en todo.» - The Guardian «Como un sueño febril: desorientador, fascinante, persistentemente extraño. ![]() «Nos recuerda el poder de la ficción para llevarnos a otro mundo y ampliar así la comprensión del nuestro. The Beauty of the House is immeasurable its Kindness infinite. The world that Piranesi thought he knew is becoming strange and dangerous. But who are they and what do they want? Are they a friend or do they bring destruction and madness as the Other claims? Lost texts must be found secrets must be uncovered. Messages begin to appear, scratched out in chalk on the pavements. At other times he brings tributes of food to the Dead. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds that move in slow procession through the upper halls. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Chosen as a book of the year by the the Times, Guardian, Observer, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, I Paper, New Statesman, Spectator, Time Magazine, Times Literary Supplement, BBC Culture, Netgalley and the Church Times The spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, 'one of our greatest living authors.' (New York Magazine) Piranesi lives in the House. ![]() Pero Piranesi no tiene miedo: comprende las embestidas del mar igual que el patrón del laberinto, mientras explora los límites de su mundo y avanza, con la ayuda de un hombre llamado El Otro, en una investigación científica para alcanzar El Gran Conocimiento Secreto. Dentro del dédalo de corredores hay un océano aprisionado en el que las olas retumban y las mareas inundan los aposentos. La casa de Piranesi no es un edificio cualquiera: sus habitaciones son monumentales, con paredes llenas de miles de estatuas, y sus pasillos, interminables. Vuelve la autora de Jonathan Strange y el señor Norrell con una novela hipnótica ambientada en una realidad onírica.
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