{"product_id":"the-absolute-paperback","title":"The Absolute - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDaniel Guebel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJessica Sequeira\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner....\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePremio Municipal de la Novela 2021\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePremio Nacional de Literatura Argentina 2018\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePremio Literario de la Academia Argentina de Letras 2017\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBest Novel Award by La Nación 2016\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA provocative multigenerational exploration of creative genius, madness, and family relationships. With the ambition and density of style of Vladimir Nabokov or Olga Tokarczuk, this is a story both profound and handled with a light touch. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Absolute\u003c\/i\u003e is a sprawling historical novel about the Deliuskin-Scriabin family, made up of six generations of geniuses and madmen. Beginning in the mid-18th century in Russia, across Europe and ending in late 20th-century Argentina, the characters' lives play out in different branches of art, politics and science in such radical ways that they transform the world and its reality. The narrator's ancestor, Frantisek Deliuskin, invents a new form of music in the 18th century; his son, Andrei Deliuskin, makes some marginal annotations to the \u003ci\u003eSpiritual Exercises\u003c\/i\u003e of Saint Ignatius of Loyola that are later interpreted by Lenin as an instruction manual to carry out the Russian Revolution of 1917; Esau Deliuskin, following the course of his father, creates a socialist utopian society; and down through the generations to the narrator, whose creation takes him back in time and space to the moment of the Big Bang. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Absolute\u003c\/i\u003e is a monumental work about the creation of art and about family, about spiritual traditions and about throwing oneself into the world not to capture life but to create it, in and through words. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This is a masterpiece at a time when masterpieces seem impossible and at the same time challenges the very idea of a masterpiece. ... It's the novel one should read if they want to know what an artist is.\" --\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLa Nación\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Guebel\u003c\/b\u003e has published over twenty-five books, including novels, short stories and plays. He won Argentina's National Literature Prize as well as the Argentine Academy of Letters' novel prize. \u003ci\u003eThe Absolute\u003c\/i\u003e was chosen by \u003ci\u003eLa Nación\u003c\/i\u003e newspaper as its book of the year and \u003ci\u003eThe Emperor's Pearl\u003c\/i\u003e won the Emecé Prize. His autobiographical book \u003ci\u003eThe Jewish Son\u003c\/i\u003e also won the Buenos Aires Book Fair's award for literary criticism. Guebel's latest novel is \u003ci\u003eA Japanese Crime\u003c\/i\u003e. A lover of Japanese literature, he owns a sushi restaurant.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJessica Sequeira\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and literary translator. She is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eA Furious Oyster\u003c\/i\u003e, the story collection \u003ci\u003eRhombus and Oval\u003c\/i\u003e, the essay collection \u003ci\u003eOther Paradises: Poetic Approaches to Thinking in a Technological Age\u003c\/i\u003e and the hybrid work \u003ci\u003eA Luminous History of the Palm\u003c\/i\u003e. She has translated over twenty books by Latin American authors, and in 2019 was awarded the Premio Valle-Inclán for her translation of Sara Gallardo's \u003ci\u003eLand of Smoke\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 464\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.1 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 17, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42158861942919,"sku":"9781644211601","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/13472e822d6139695c9beb279e2a96f9.webp?v=1733262165","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-absolute-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}