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Carregando... The Secrets of the Camera Obscura (1994)de David Knowles
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"Invented by two Chinese eccentrics, stolen by Leonardo da Vinci, and exploited by the Dutch painter Vermeer, the camera obscura has a mysterious and eventful past that now appears to be linked to several murders." "In a contemporary American city, a beautiful young woman who frequented the camera obscura is found decapitated just beyond the range of its lens. Another visitor to the tourist attraction, a secretive art student, becomes the prime suspect. Watching them all is the man who runs the camera obscura - a black room with a moveable lens to the outside world. From this cliff-top perch he writes the enigmatic history of the camera obscura's invention and its use, all the while unveiling strangely parallel tales of love and obsession." "With sharp humor, historical revelations, and increasingly sinister clarity, author David Knowles unfolds this layered and unpredictable tale of duplicity and jealousy and the special powers of the camera obscura."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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 Google Books — Carregando...GênerosClassificação decimal de Dewey (CDD)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos E.U.A. (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia: (3.32)
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The camera obscura an age-old invention, known to the ancients, and used since the Renaissance, had its hey-day in the Victorian Age. While a camera obscura can be constructed of various sizes, nowadays the most spectacular experience in to visit and sit inside the camera.
Such a camera consists of a dark room, in which the outside, surrounding reality is projected on a table, through a system of lenses and mirrors. The lense, mounted on a kind of periscope, can be turned 360 degrees. In recent years, there is quite a revival of interest in the camera obscura. The experience is described as meditative, magic.
Secrets of the camera obscura by David Knowles is a novella which explores the history of the camera obscura. Through alternating episodes, we read about the history of the camera obscura, starting with the invention in China, the use of the camera by Leonardo Da Vinci and Johannes Vermeer, who may have used it. These accounts are fictionalized.
The other story line, is the murder of an Italian woman, a regular visitor of the camera obscura in an American city. The story is written from the perspective of the owner / caretaker of the camera, who apparently observed the murder from within the concealment of the camera.
The two story-lines are connected through violent murders, involving decapitation, the use of the camera obscura, and the motive of concealment. Another theme which is featured is that of betrayal.
What have I learned so far from the story of Mo Ti and Chuang Chou? Many things. First of all, that the betrayal of a friend's trust is at the root of the problem, and at the heart of our story. (p.54)
The end of the story is a bit obscure, perhaps fitting the setting. (