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Carregando... A Case of Curiosities (1992)de Allen Kurzweil
   Nenhum(a) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.  Cariola | May 26, 2018 |   Allen is a cousin of Ray Kurtweil, a true genius. This book pretends to be a retelling of the journal and collection of a genius from a century ago, but it isn't careful enough to feel like history, and it isn't smart enough to feel like genius. I liked the characters though. Nobody there to fall in love with, nothing happened to be afraid about, but they would have been great friends to hang out with in 19th century Paris. (  ) andrewlorien | Jan 5, 2016 |  ) skraft001 | Jul 4, 2013 | A great read: French history, watch- and gadget-making (and all books are one book: it and the just-read Invention of Hugo Cabret each deal with automata). Pleasantly geeky, with cases of curiosities and commonplace books. The kind of faux literary-historical novel that delights me. ljhliesl | May 21, 2013 |  ) velvetink | Mar 31, 2013 | sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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This tale of an ambitious inventor in France as the Revolution looms is "brilliantly playful . . . full of lore and lewdness" (Chicago Tribune). "A portrait of a young mechanical genius in 18th-century France, delivered along with a gallimaufry of odd and intriguing facts and a rich, lusty picture of society in that time and place." --Publishers Weekly In France, on the eve of the Revolution, a young man named Claude Page sets out to become the most ingenious and daring inventor of his time. Over the course of a career filled with violence and passion, Claude learns the arts of enameling and watchmaking from an irascible, defrocked abbé, then apprentices himself to a pornographic bookseller and applies his erotic erudition to the seduction of the wife of an impotent wigmaker. But it is Claude's greatest device--a talking mechanical head--that both crowns his career and leads to an execution as tragic as that of Marie Antoinette, and far more bizarre. "Like a joint effort by Henry Fielding and John Barth" (Chicago Tribune), this "captivating novel" (San Francisco Chronicle) marked the debut of one of the finest literary artists of our time. "A Case of Curiosities . . . really is brilliant. Also witty, learned, ingenious, sly, and bawdy." --Entertainment Weekly "What John Fowles did for the 19th century with The French Lieutenant's Woman and Umberto Eco did for the 14th with The Name of the Rose . . . Kurzweil now does for the late 18th century." --San Francisco Chronicle Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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I found many of the characters to be both quirky and unique, but the overall pacing seems to be off. I was engaged in Claude's life in Tournay and his early employment with the Abbé, but there were times when the story dragged or felt repetitive. Things picked up when he got to Paris, but, again, I found myself getting bored, especially with all the descriptions of mechanical devices and equipment. (